Tuesday Morning Open Thread: Back to the Grind
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Tuesday, September 23, 2008
The Decay of American Exceptionalism
Jim Kunstler has an amazing new must-read post up on his blog. I warn you, it is frightening and difficult not to internalize.
The Republican Party amounts to today's Whigs. Their candidate for president, John McCain, is trying to run away from his own party -- as one might shrink away from a colony of importuning lepers. I am actually not kidding when I label the Republicans "the party that wrecked America," because I believe that is truly how the popular strain of history will regard them when (maybe if) the wreckage of their ministrations ever clears...
Some of the issues yet-to-be-clarified concern the behavior of the American public in the broad sense. We have obdurately resisted the reality of the energy crisis that hangs over everything we do (as slavery hung over the 1850s), from the way we inhabit the landscape to the way we do daily business in our 240-million-plus fleet of cars and trucks that ply the ribbons of asphalt and the lagoons of parking that now run from sea to shining sea where the fruited plain was replaced by the Wal Marts.
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Posted by Metavirus at 9/23/2008 11:37:00 AM
Tags: Bailout , Barack Obama , Deregulation , Economy , Election 2008 , General Election , John McCain
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