By my count, Wills took positions anathematized by 14 different Canons of the Council of Trent in this brief interview. Wills has become an open and unambiguous advocate of heresy.<\/em>\u00bb)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tWills est donc le contraire d’un conservateur libertarien et sans aucun doute un adversaire affirm\u00e9 du populisme, en m\u00eame temps qu’un catholique appr\u00e9ciant les tendances d\u00e9structurantes inspir\u00e9es de la modernit\u00e9, tout cela s’accordant parfaitement, apr\u00e8s tout. Par cons\u00e9quent, il peut donc \u00eatre class\u00e9 comme un centraliste-progressiste affirm\u00e9, qu’on retrouve proche des conservateurs-centralistes, de type belliciste, au sein de l’aile classique du parti r\u00e9publicain (type McCain-Graham). Il n’est certainement pas favorable, ni \u00e0 la s\u00e9cession, ni aux libertariens qui luttent contre un gouvernement central fort, ni aux tendances qui s’en r\u00e9clament. Sa description de l’\u00e9tat actuel des USA n’en est donc, d’un certain point de vue, que plus significative. Elle signale combien la question de la coh\u00e9sion des USA, quoique \u00e9voqu\u00e9e le moins possible dans les analyses de la situation g\u00e9n\u00e9rale US, est d\u00e9sormais une r\u00e9f\u00e9rence centrale de l’\u00e9tat g\u00e9n\u00e9ral des USA. Il existe un \u00e9tat d’une s\u00e9cession \u00e0 la fois latente et effective (stealthy<\/em>) qui se rapproche de la situation d’avant-1861, marquant ainsi combien le conflit actuel, le d\u00e9chirement entre les diff\u00e9rentes tendances \u00e0 Washington, entre d\u00e9mocrates et r\u00e9publicains, entre extr\u00e9mistes et centristes, etc., loin d’\u00eatre un conflit artificiellement d\u00e9velopp\u00e9 au nom des id\u00e9ologies m\u00eame si ce pr\u00e9texte est souvent avanc\u00e9, repr\u00e9sente une r\u00e9elle v\u00e9rit\u00e9 de la situation US. Plus encore, on comprend combien la crise actuelle de l’am\u00e9ricanisme finit par se retrouver dans les termes classiques du pour ou contre le centralisme, avec son extr\u00eame dans la question de la coh\u00e9sion des USA et de la s\u00e9cession.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tLe propre argument de Wills, \u00e9galement id\u00e9ologique, protestant contre le poids trop important des extr\u00e9mistes et minoritaires dans les partis, est un argument sp\u00e9cifiquement de type-Syst\u00e8me. L’arrangement courant aux USA, avant les remous actuels, se constituait dans l’\u00e9touffement des tendances de base, populistes sinon populaires, selon un processus de contr\u00f4le des appareils des deux ailes du parti unique, notamment \u00e0 partir des \u00e9chelons locaux et r\u00e9gionaux. Ainsi Ron Paul fut-il \u00e9cart\u00e9 de la candidature du parti unique-tendance r\u00e9publicaine, alors qu’il repr\u00e9sentait une tr\u00e8s forte pouss\u00e9e populaire. On comprendra donc que l’actuelle dictature des extr\u00eames \u00e0 Washington, au sein du Congr\u00e8s, qui heurtent tant les esprits \u00e9clair\u00e9s, lib\u00e9raux-progressistes et conservateurs-centralistes, n’est rien de moins qu’un r\u00e9tablissement d’une v\u00e9ritable repr\u00e9sentation d\u00e9mocratique, par le biais de diverses \u00e9chapp\u00e9es extr\u00e9mistes court-circuitant les m\u00e9canismes des partis de la nomenklatura<\/em> washingtonienne, contre la dictature de l’arrangement \u00e9lectoral du syst\u00e8me de l’am\u00e9ricanisme qui a pr\u00e9valu \u00e0 Washington depuis l’origine. C’est un peu avec cet esprit qu’il est conseill\u00e9 de go\u00fbter aux pr\u00e9cisions que nous donne Garry Wills.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00abOn Monday, The New York Times reported that eleven counties in Colorado are promoting efforts to secede from their state government. Of course, men like Governor Rick Perry of Texas have gone further and threatened secession from the federal government. It is not much noticed that parts of the country act as if they had already seceded from the union. They do not recognize laws and Supreme Court decisions, or constitutional guarantees of free speech. For instance seventeen states have violated the First Amendment by preventing or hindering the work of navigatorsorganizations and businesses funded by the federal government to educate people on ways to follow the rules of the Affordable Care Act. Some groups routinely attempt to block health centers from advising women on the legal right to contraception. Eight state legislatures this year have passed voter restrictions that may violate the Fourteenth Amendment, and similar measures are pending in other states.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThe people behind these efforts are imitating what the Confederate States did even before they formally seceded in 1861. Already they ran a parallel government, in which the laws of the national government were blatantly disregarded. They denied the right of abolitionists to voice their arguments, killing or riding out of town over three hundred of them in the years before the Civil War. They confiscated or destroyed abolitionist tracts sent to Southern states by United States mail. In the United States Congress, they instituted gag rules that automatically tabled (excluded from discussion) anti-slavery petitions, in flagrant abuse of the First Amendment’s right of petition.<\/em> […]<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbJust as the Old South compelled the national party to shelter its extremism, today’s Tea Party leaders make Republicans toe their line. Most Republicans do not think laws invalid because the president is a foreign-born Muslim with a socialist agenda. But they do not renounce, or even criticize, their partners who think that. The rare Republican who dares criticize a Rush Limbaugh is quickly made to repent and apologize. John Boehner holds the nation hostage because the Tea Party holds him hostage. The problem with modern Republicans is not fanaticism in the few but cowardice in the many, who let their fellows live in virtual secession from laws they disagree with.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbRepublican leaders in Congress are too cowardly to say that the voting restrictions being enacted by Republican-controlled state legislatures are racially motivated. They accept the blatant lie that they are aimed only at non-existent fraud. They will not crack the open code by which their partners claim to object to Obama because he is a foreign-born Muslim when they really mean a black man. They will not admit that the many procedural laws adopted to prevent abortion are in violation of the law as defined by the Supreme Court. They go along with the pretence that all the new rules are for women’s health. De facto acts of secession are given a pseudo-legal cover.<\/em> […]<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbSo we have one condition that resembles the pre-Civil War virtual secessionismthe holding of a whole party hostage to its most extreme members. We also have the other antebellum conditionthe disproportionate representation of the extreme faction. <\/em> […] The presiding spirit of this neo-secessionism is a resistance to majority rule. We see this in the Senate, where a Democratic majority is resisted at every turn by automatic recourses to the filibuster. We see it in the attempt to repeal the seventeenth amendment, which allows a majority of voters to choose a state’s senators. The repealers want that choice to go back to the state legislatures, where they rule thanks to anti-majority gerrymandering.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThe Old South went from virtual to actual secession only when the addition of non-slave Western states threatened their disproportionate hold on the Congress and the Court (which had been Southern in makeup when ruling on Dred Scott). It is difficult to conjecture what will happen if the modern virtual seceders do not get their way. Their anti-government rhetoric is reaching new intensity. Some would clearly rather ruin than be ruled by a foreign-born Muslim. What will the Republicans who are not fanatics, only cowards, do in that case?<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tMis en ligne le 18 octobre 2013 \u00e0 18H00<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
L’Am\u00e9rique en s\u00e9cession Voici un int\u00e9ressant article du professeur Garry Wills, dans le New York Review of Book (le 9 octobre 2013), qui donne une image qu’il convient de retenir pour la compr\u00e9hension de l’\u00e9tat r\u00e9el de l’Am\u00e9rique, et surtout de l’Am\u00e9rique \u00e0 l’heure de sa crise fondamentale qui vient de conna\u00eetre un \u00e9pisode paroxystique… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2762,9181,3896,7069,2949,11009,8256,8712],"class_list":["post-75260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-extremiste","tag-garry","tag-lincoln","tag-party","tag-secession","tag-shutdown","tag-tea","tag-wills"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}