We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Saturday, February 21, 2015

Bush Says He Will Harm Nation Differently from His Brother

Click here to access article by Andy Borowitz from The New Yorker. (satire)


“George already did it, and Dad did it before him,” he said. “Call it my independent streak, if you will, but I want to spawn some disasters of my own.”

To that end, Bush said that he and his foreign-policy team were already scanning the globe for “new and different places” where the United States could become involved in open-ended and pointless quagmires.







It doesn't matter much who occupies the White House, however unlike most presidents Jeb Bush as a competent member of the Bush clan is a part of the inner circle of capitalist ruling class directors. (His brother was too stupid to exercise any initiative.) I think what is even more important is that he is a member of a highly aggressive faction of the directors, and as such he might be even more dangerous than Obama who functioned mostly as a pseudo-populist puppet of the less aggressive faction.