By Ed Schultz
The center type, the place the greatness of this country is rooted, is less than siege via an more and more unethical procedure, controlled through monetary vampires who're sucking the lifeblood out of the yank kin and ripping the guts out of democracy itself. mammoth money�and the politicians who're swayed by way of it�play either events opposed to one another, utilizing this fake conflict to distract such a lot people from the true conflict, that is a conflict opposed to the yank family.
This is it, parents . . . the instant of fact. this may be the instant historians will glance again upon and both say it was once the instant this nice send of kingdom corrected its path, or the instant it sailed thoroughly clear of its democratic ideals.
To be successful, we need to achieve again and rediscover our greatness. development would possibly not come as quickly as we, in our impatience and impertinence, call for. but when we're sufferer and protracted, it's going to come.
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I guess I’m a Darwinian. I’m still a hard-driving competitor, but I think Wendy’s influence helped me channel that energy in more positive ways. ” THINKING FOR MYSELF After I “came out” as a progressive, conservatives scoffed and branded me an opportunist. An opportunist in a nation where conservative voices dominated radio nine to one? I guess I was an opportunist with a poor grasp of the odds. Meanwhile, some liberals viewed me with suspicion because on some issues I just wasn’t liberal enough.
George W. Bush put us into a crisis situation. OK. What’s the opportunity in this self-induced crisis? Well, to start with, we have to recalibrate our moral compass as a nation and ask ourselves, Are we so lacking in character that we will allow our children to pay for our mistakes? The good news is that we do have the opportunity to do something about our national lack of foresight: We can do something about the national debt right now. The progressive movement has the House of Representatives, the White House, and a majority in the Senate.
In Iraq, we discovered that once we had removed Saddam’s iron grip, what was left were two distinctly warring factions—the Sunnis and the Shia—and the Kurds, an ethnic group of Sunnis. The Bush administration didn’t seem to have a clue that this would happen. They acted as if with Saddam Hussein gone, Iraq would unite, and they didn’t plan for any other scenario. Nor did they have a plan for Afghanistan. We have al-Qaeda on the defensive, and we ought to continue to relentlessly hunt Osama bin Laden until the day he dies, but occupying Afghanistan is a fool’s errand, as the Soviet Union discovered two decades ago.