Getting through the next four years will test us. Institutions will crumble. This doesn’t have to be a bad thing. Time will tell. The parties will not save us.
Ah, political journalism. Even after reading The Boys on the Bus and understanding that it's not all investigative-journalism courage of Watergate and the Pentagon Papers, I never imagined I'd be so disappointed in so much of conventional journalism. We're fortunate to have access to other voices.
The feeling I sense is radical insecurity. If humans have the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, do they by extension have a right to health care, food, clothing and shelter? To a foundational schooling/education? To a publicly supported system that protects the air and water in which they live and the environment that supports them? In a world of many nations, do Americans have a right and a duty to contribute to the security of other nations, so that other nations have similar freedoms with a sense of interdependence on each other? And a sense of freedom from being dominated or overpowered by other nations? Do people also have the right to expect economic justice, so that none are too rich and none too poor?
Getting through the next four years will test us. Institutions will crumble. This doesn’t have to be a bad thing. Time will tell. The parties will not save us.
Ah, political journalism. Even after reading The Boys on the Bus and understanding that it's not all investigative-journalism courage of Watergate and the Pentagon Papers, I never imagined I'd be so disappointed in so much of conventional journalism. We're fortunate to have access to other voices.
The right gets it right sometimes: it's definitely the lamestream media!
The feeling I sense is radical insecurity. If humans have the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, do they by extension have a right to health care, food, clothing and shelter? To a foundational schooling/education? To a publicly supported system that protects the air and water in which they live and the environment that supports them? In a world of many nations, do Americans have a right and a duty to contribute to the security of other nations, so that other nations have similar freedoms with a sense of interdependence on each other? And a sense of freedom from being dominated or overpowered by other nations? Do people also have the right to expect economic justice, so that none are too rich and none too poor?
sagacious perspective