A Moment for National REFIREMENT! Americans Get Creative and Get Busy
Rich Lowery's article The Taint of '68 is filled with stereotypes and falsehoods ( Lowery Article ) that serve to blind Americans to the true task of re-envisioning our country and making our economy and society anew. We have an exciting and daunting challenge and opportunity ahead of us.
By Lowery's criteria of Boomer activists, the US would never have come into being --having been founded by VIOLENCE.
Ummmm....didn't our revolutionaries fight a WAR to liberate us from British rule? Since the majority of us were peace-niks, I can only go HUH?!? to his reduction of thousands of American's desire to stop the war in Vietnam to violent fighters. Thousands nowadays want to stop this war that is draining us and has reduced Bush's approval rating to about 23%.
Revisionists like this dope, are nothing new to long time activists. The Women's Movement has been declared stupid and dead and feminazis for about 30 years and is still perking along strong. Civil rights workers were called dangerous to the country and "our" blacks are happy and "like things how they are". Well, look who is running for president! The Peace Movement filled the streets with hundreds of thousands of ordinary people, moms with strollers, old folks, young ones, soldiers.
This kind of backward flimflam is just that. It is intended to inflame opinion and throw dust in the eyes. All it really does is syphon off energy that could be used to deal with the real issues of our current situation.
Our country is in transition to an entirely different place in the worldwide scheme of things and an entirely different economy.
This change is as powerful and profound as was the industrial revolution. We need to gather our strength; stop fighting over who can be part of the full life of the country and who needs to be excluded. We need to look forward with all our creativity and energy to create America anew.
It is time for the entire country to take a deep breath, go inward for a reflective time and then reFIRE. We need all our creativity and energy to envision ourselves anew. Flimflammers get over yourself! America get ready to Boomerang.
And, RL, it is all about the economy, stupid!
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