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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (98491)	4/11/2003 8:26:18 PM
From: benwood	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 132070

Sure, if I was repressed, I want somebody to do something about it. I just doubt our motives for many reasons. One clue for me is that the truth was not sufficient to get the public motivated. I think the thing that you see, which is more than the majority who don't really think much about it, is an evolution in the world where tyranny falls by the wayside. Leaps like that come with a lot of pain and suffering because the old ways die out hard. I'd love that to happen, too, and realize that if it was brought about by the right people/countries, then it would be a cultural evolution of sorts. But my misgivings have to do with the exclusionary thinking of those involved, the regression of rights in American (with more slated to be eliminated, for good), and the similarity to the thinking that rationalized the repeated conquest of native tribes in the US (and the usurpation of their treaty lands when some reason was found to take them). It all smells like Manifest Destiny to me, and I think that's why our culture is feared. Millions of Americans genuinely feel that others would be better off to be like them. What I see instead is a culture of people who've become powerful because of their fear of others (fill in: Black Americans, Asians, Muslims). My belief is that within 50 years, globalization will have progressed to the point where countries all across the globe will have relations like the US and Canada. I hope to live to see that day. We clearly are the catalyst for the change. I just can't see yet if our leaders are simply the death rattle ourselves, rather then seeing the death rattle elsewhere. When I see Bush acting like a preacher on TV, I just get a very bad feeling that an exclusionary approach like that cannot be the path that will lead the world. But it is proving to be a path that will motivate the change to take place. The best I can hope for is that we'll muddle through anyway and still not lose ourselves in the process (to radiation, to empire, whatever...).