{"id":72256,"date":"2010-09-08T12:23:21","date_gmt":"2010-09-08T12:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2010\/09\/08\/cry-for-you-america\/"},"modified":"2010-09-08T12:23:21","modified_gmt":"2010-09-08T12:23:21","slug":"cry-for-you-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2010\/09\/08\/cry-for-you-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Cry for You, America<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cry for You, America<\/em><\/h4>\n

Le 5 septembre 2010<\/a>, Frank Rich, l’un des extr\u00eamement rares collaborateurs du New York Times<\/em> authentiquement lib\u00e9ral<\/em> (progressiste) consacrait sa colonne r\u00e9guli\u00e8re au discours sur l’Irak du pr\u00e9sident Obama. Il y disait toute son amertume, tout son d\u00e9senchantement devant le spectacle de ce pr\u00e9sident \u00e9lu dans l’enthousiasme des progressistes, tenant un discours de robot belliciste, sans \u00e2me, sans compassion, sans humanit\u00e9. Le 8 septembre 2010<\/a>, WSWS.org<\/em> consacrait un article \u00e0 ce Frank Rich du 5 septembre, o\u00f9, fait rarissime pour ce site impitoyable pour toute gauche qui n’est pas trotskiste, per\u00e7ait une certaine compr\u00e9hension : \u00abTo his credit, Rich was not among those liberal pundits who promoted the war.<\/em> [] Rich’s critique struck a nerve with many readers. Letters poured into the Times web site, some deeply emotional, reflecting disillusionment, anger and, to some extent, despair over the results of Obama’s election<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tC’est ce dernier point qui nous arr\u00eat\u00e9s. L’article de Rich a suscit\u00e9 480 commentaires avant que la rubrique ne soit ferm\u00e9e, et parmi eux celui d’un lecteur dont le texte est cit\u00e9 par WSWS.org<\/em>, qui a atteint le r\u00e9f\u00e9rencement exceptionnel de 2.515 lecteurs. Ce commentaire de Joe, 35 ans, de Ann Arbor dans le Michigan, vaut beaucoup d’analyses savantes sur l’\u00e9tat des \u00e2mes, aujourd’hui, en Am\u00e9rique.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00abI am a 35 year old man who had an interesting set of perspective shifts from 2001-2002. I started 2001 a Republican; I ended 2002 a vocal anti- Bush anti-war Democrat. And now I’m not sure I even want to be an American anymore. I speak for many of my friends.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbWhat changed from 2001-2002? A number of things: The blatant dishonesty and warmongering of the Bush administration over spy planes in China, the creepy giddiness of the administration over 9-11 and the rush to war, and the horribly wrong coverage of all of the above by our liberal media. One more fact: I lived in London from late September 2001 through the end of 2002. From there, I read reports about the IAEA and Scott Ritter, Hans Blix et al. over and over again saying there were no WMD in Iraq. When I got back to the US, it was like a fascist nightmare. Flags festooned everywhere, people literally calling you a traitor for opposing the war, etc.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbThrough all of this time from all of the disgusting crimes of the Bush years now through the Dems’ despicable capitulation to corporations (Andrew Jackson’s nightmare) I’ve wondered what I’m still doing in this country. I’m finishing an advanced degree at the University of Michigan and honestly I feel like leaving and never coming back. I’d like to live in a humane place where democracy still means something. I would miss the comfort of the familiar, friends and family, my sports teams…but little else. Our country is no longer a place I’m proud of. I could fight to make this place better, but that’s a life’s work, and honestly I’m not sure if this place isn’t beyond repair. Regardless of my education, I think I speak for many my age and younger.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbHow bitterly ironic that so many people including our absolutely execrable media elite, save for a few of you at the Times and here and there actually thought we were such champions of democracy, beating the drums of invasion.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbWe no longer live in a functioning democracy. That is not the grim pronouncement of a dour hippie (not that there’s anything wrong with that). That is a sober account of the state of America today, spelled out by a skilled guy with a future and a solid moral foundation, someone that should be encouraged by some credible accountable leadership to stay and help make this country better. Rahm Emanuel dropping F-bombs to liberals and the UAW, Larry Summers running economic policy and Harry Reid grabbing his ankles for the GOP: not change I can believe in. And no more dear to me is a country where multitudes descend on DC to listen to a Weimar Republic beer hall speech at the Lincoln Memorial, listen to a fork-tongued Jabba the Hut seething chaos over public airwaves on a daily basis, or vote for a lobotomized governor in Arizona or openly racist senator in Kentucky. Where a lib\u00e9ral president convenes secret meetings to dismantle the last shred of fairness in American society, Social Security.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbDo I stay and do my tiny part to make it work? If I were an entrepreneur capitalist I might be tempted, but you know I’m actually like most people in this country: I just want meaningful work as part of a team that gives me a decent standard of living, something I’m far more likely to get in northern Europe, Australia, Singapore, Germany, or Canada than here. Utopia means no place but there are places are far more congruent with my secular moral values, with highly regulated free markets, robust public services, democratic freedoms and a sense of shared sacrifice.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbWhat does motivate me to work for change here, whatever small part, is the danger of an even more arrant and errant USA in the world than what we have now.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbBut regardless, the fact that I’m a skilled young person very seriously questioning whether to give up my citizenship should concern some principled leader. Our misbegotten tragedy in Iraq is where it all started, but it’s been all downhill from there.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tPlus loin dans la colonne des commentaires, cette r\u00e9ponse \u00e0 Joe, l’Am\u00e9ricain de 35 ans qui se demande s’il ne va pas changer de nationalit\u00e9, par Sarascott, du Michigan \u00e9galement. Il est difficile de ne pas penser que tant de col\u00e8re, tant de d\u00e9sespoir, tant d’amertume, puissent \u00eatre contenus encore longtemps dans les bornes de l’apparence caricaturale des restes refroidis de l’American Dream<\/em>, ce qui est l’Am\u00e9rique d’aujourd’hui, de quelque c\u00f4t\u00e9 que l’on se tourne (les citoyens am\u00e9ricains de la droite conservatrice ressentent, \u00e0 leur fa\u00e7on et pour d’autres raisons, les m\u00eames sentiments de col\u00e8re, d’amertume et de d\u00e9sespoir).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00abJoe, I read the article and then I read your comment. You have said it all and responded correctly. I feel what you feel. I am older. I am not quite 60 but almost there and the despair, the helplessness, the hurt, the loss of this great nation is with me every day. You also write of where do we go? Where is it safe and good and free? Where is the America that was? I ponder that all the time. I want to gather up my two young adult children who are just beginning their lives and are not yet aware what kind of a world they have inherited and take them away to some magical place that is safe. I don’t want to tell them the truth. I don’t want to scare them.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbObama is not responsible. There are no words that he can say that will change where we are at. I believe that he does think, reflect, read ,digest and ultimately worry about the same things that you and I do. He is not clueless, but he is powerless to give Mr Rich the speech that he yearns for. Really Mr Frank Rich could Obama say the words that you so desperately want to hear? What effect would they have? Would they fix anything, or possibly cause a mass panic of such proportion that the stampede of frightened American citzens would cause our inevitable ending so much sooner.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbThe game is over. The rescue isn’t coming. The America that was is no more. It won’t be coming back. I am sorry. I am sorry Joe. I am sorry that you know. It makes it unbearable. It makes your young life a misery. I am sorry. I am so truly sorry.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbI am just a half hour away from Ann Arbor and I am here. And I am determined to live in peace, in love, in harmony and without hurt or strife. You are welcome friend at my table.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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