Can We Save Ourselves?

Insanity is spreading. How long will this go on?

I’m afraid, and I’m too old to be afraid like this. The American century ended twenty years ago, but hope remained through all the political disintegration and growing disasters of the climate tragedy.

People generally recognize that the Amerian Empire survives on borrowed time, although no one in the ruling gaggle acknowledges that reality. We’ve spent years watching their idiocy grow even as thousands of people suffered and died in proxy wars powered by America’s technology.

Even as people in politics who could not stand the absurdity abandoned the field, no one thought to ask why because it was obvious. All that is left are the idiots, criminals, or aging has-beens. We have been happy to have the has-beens in the hope they at least remembered what they had once understood.

That last hope is now failing.

It looks as if Barabara Jordan of California is the only sane person left who is not quivering in fear at the howls of the idiots and crazies who have usurped the role of leadership in this nation-state.

We must reject the calls from some in Washington to increase fighting in the Middle East. The path to peace and security is not through war, but through de-escalation and diplomacy. Rep. Barbara Lee