{"id":73485,"date":"2012-11-07T15:29:15","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T15:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2012\/11\/07\/leur-seconde-civil-war\/"},"modified":"2012-11-07T15:29:15","modified_gmt":"2012-11-07T15:29:15","slug":"leur-seconde-civil-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2012\/11\/07\/leur-seconde-civil-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Leur seconde Civil War<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leur seconde Civil War<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/p>\n

\tC’est un article int\u00e9ressant de l’\u00e9conomiste lib\u00e9ral-progressiste, ancien secr\u00e9taire au travail de Clinton devenu professeur, Robert Reich, sur \u00abWe the People, and the New American Civil War<\/em>\u00bb. Outre l’article lui-m\u00eame, l’int\u00e9r\u00eat porte sur le cheminement de l’article, qu’il est bon de d\u00e9crire avant d’en venir au contenu lui-m\u00eame. Publi\u00e9 d’abord sur le site de Reich (RobertReich.org<\/em>), le 5 novembre 2012<\/a>, puis sur le site progressiste CommonDreams.org<\/em> le 6 novembre 2012<\/a>, il a ensuite \u00e9t\u00e9 publi\u00e9 le 7 novembre 2012<\/a> sur le site iranien PressTV.com<\/em>. C’est un itin\u00e9raire int\u00e9ressant, si l’on suppose, comme c’est tout \u00e0 fait probable pour un site de cette importance (PressTV.com<\/em>), que Reich a donn\u00e9 son accord pour une publication sur le site iranien. Il s’agit bien l\u00e0 d’un texte \u00e0 consommation int\u00e9rieure, d\u00e9licat dans sa signification profonde, destin\u00e9 essentiellement \u00e0 un public US et qu’un homme de l’intelligentsia<\/em> comme l’est malgr\u00e9 tout Robert Reich ne devrait pas n\u00e9cessairement appr\u00e9cier de voir diffus\u00e9 sur un site iranien. S’il l’est, c’est qu’il s’agit d’un texte refl\u00e9tant sans aucun doute des sentiments tr\u00e8s profonds et une exp\u00e9rience tr\u00e8s p\u00e9nible de la situation US, que Reich estime devoir faire b\u00e9n\u00e9ficier de la plus large publicit\u00e9 possible, un texte qui figure comme le fameux symbole, ou signal de d\u00e9tresse, lorsque le drapeau am\u00e9ricain est hiss\u00e9 \u00e0 l’envers, le rectangle avec les \u00e9toiles \u00e9tant en bas.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tL’appr\u00e9ciation que Robert Reich expose est une vue tr\u00e8s critique, sinon tragique, de la situation int\u00e9rieure des USA. L’int\u00e9r\u00eat de ce texte est qu’il d\u00e9crit une guerre civile (La Seconde Guerre Civile am\u00e9ricaine) moins marqu\u00e9e par des \u00e9v\u00e9nements brutaux, des faits politiques voire militaires identifiables dans le sens de la d\u00e9sunion (comme lors de la Premi\u00e8re Guerre Civile, y compris dans les pr\u00e9misses de ce conflit), que par un climat psychologique et social, voire un climat de communication au sens du syst\u00e8me de la communication, extr\u00eamement pesant, \u00e9prouvant, et marqu\u00e9 par une division presque g\u00e9ographique (entre les fameux \u00c9tats rouges et \u00c9tats bleus attribu\u00e9s respectivement aux r\u00e9publicains et aux d\u00e9mocrates sur les cartes \u00e9lectorales). Ce texte m\u00e9rite de larges citations, qui montrent comment les sentiments anti-d\u00e9mocrates et anti-r\u00e9publicains ressemblent de plus en plus aux jugements id\u00e9ologiques, voire raciaux les plus violents<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00abThe vitriol is worse than I ever recall. Worse than the Palin-induced smarm pf 2008. Worse than the swift-boat lies of 2004. Worse, even, than the anything-goes craziness of 2000 and its ensuing bitterness. It’s almost a civil war. I know families in which close relatives are no longer speaking. A dating service says Democrats won’t even consider going out with Republicans, and vice-versa. My email and twitter feeds contain messages from strangers I wouldn’t share with my granddaughter.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbWhat’s going on? Yes, we’re divided over issues like the size of government and whether women should have control over their bodies. But these aren’t exactly new debates. We’ve been disagreeing over the size and role of government since Thomas Jefferson squared off with Alexander Hamilton, and over abortion rights since before Roe v. Wade, almost forty years ago. And we’ve had bigger disagreements in the past over the Vietnam War, civil rights, communist witch hunts that didn’t rip us apart like this.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbMaybe it’s that we’re more separated now, geographically and online.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbThe town where I grew up in the 1950s was a GOP stronghold, but Henry Wallace, FDR’s left-wing vice president, had retired there quite happily. Our political disagreements then and there didn’t get in the way of our friendships. Or even our families my father voted Republican and my mother was a Democrat. And we all watched Edward R. Murrow deliver the news, and then, later, Walter Cronkite. Both men were the ultimate arbiters of truth.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00abBut now most of us exist in our own political bubbles, left and right. I live in Berkeley, California a blue city in a blue state and rarely stumble across anyone who isn’t a liberal Democrat (the biggest battles here are between the moderate left and the far-left). The TV has hundreds of channels so I can pick what I want to watch and who I want to hear. And everything I read online confirms everything I believe, thanks in part to Google’s convenient algorithms.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbSo when Americans get upset about politics these days we tend to stew in our own juices, without benefit of anyone we know well and with whom we disagree and this makes it almost impossible for us to understand the other side<\/em> []<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbNot even this degree of divisiveness would have taken root had America preserved the social solidarity we had two generations ago. The Great Depression and World War II reminded us we were all in it together. We had to depend on each other in order to survive. That sense of mutual dependence transcended our disagreements. My father, a Rockefeller Republican, strongly supported civil rights and voting rights, Medicare and Medicaid. I remember him saying we’re all Americans, aren’t we?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbTo be sure, we endured 9\/11, we’ve gone to war in Iraq and Afghanistan, and we suffered the Great Recession. But these did not not bind us as we were bound together in the Great Depression and World War II. The horror of 9\/11 did not touch all of us, and the only sacrifice George W. Bush asked was that we kept shopping. Today’s wars are fought by hired guns young people who are paid to do the work most of the rest of us don’t want our own children to do. And the Great Recession split us rather than connected us; the rich grew richer, the rest of us, poorer and less secure.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbSo we come to the end of a bitter election feeling as if we’re two nations rather than one. The challenge not only for our president and representatives in Washington but for all of us is to rediscover the public good.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tPour relever le d\u00e9fi (on dit relever le challenge<\/em>, dans les salons), on souhaite bonne chance \u00e0 Robert Reich, et cela dit sans ironie d\u00e9plac\u00e9e, mais sans espoir superflu non plus. Ce texte-l\u00e0 en dit plus long, on le comprendra, que mille campagnes \u00e9lectorales \u00e0 $6 milliards l’unit\u00e9, que mille discours prompt\u00e9s, que mille n’importe quoi pourvu qu’on puisse y appliquer le qualificatif-chewing gum<\/em>-d\u00e9mocratiedu temps des aubaines \u00e9lectorales.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tNos lecteurs nous comprendront sans aucun doute lorsqu’ils liront ceci, qu’il s’agit l\u00e0 d’une modeste contribution, mais qui tient lieu pour nous de seul commentaire, c’est-\u00e0-dire de non-commentaire, le seul int\u00e9r\u00eat qu’on puisse accorder, a contrario<\/em> et par d\u00e9faut, de cette bouffonnerie insupportable et indescriptible, proche de la naus\u00e9e pour ses effets, \u00e0 laquelle nous venons d’assister. (Dito<\/em>, le tirage au fric de l’homme le plus puissant du monde.) Le commentaire de Reich met en lumi\u00e8re des choses d’une profondeur et d’une importance qui sont \u00e0 des ann\u00e9es-lumi\u00e8re de ce dont nous n’avons pas dit un seul mot.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\tMis en ligne le 7 novembre 2012 \u00e0 15H36<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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