What is your big picture paragraph?

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On this day when Puppet Bush delivers his SOTU speech, I think it appropriate to call for big picture paragraphs to see how everyone sees the biggest of deals. How is it that you see the country in one paragraph? Does it resemble mine?

My Big Picture Paragraph
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We had a class war where 99% of the people didn't show up and that gave us Wealthy Rule. Puppet Bush represents a group of Empiring PNACers that have engaged the US in a mission of global domination that calls for the milary destruction of those in their way. They call for military supremacy forever, the sole militarization of space, and full spectrum dominance in all classes of weapons. Wealthy Rule has built the machinery of the nation to protect it and that includes the election system with the Largest Minority Rule and not requiring a paper trail on cast votes. It includes a media whose concentration into six powerful allies of Wealthy Rule came by design of a Congress loyal to Wealthy Rule. We are now seeing the Justice system turn to protect Wealthy Rule and their pursuit of Empire. The policy of prohibition was used to trample the Constitution and give us a police state. Wealthy rule is rule by treason. We need to restore the federal governments to a more perfect Union, and one that re-establish Justice, insures domestic Tranquility, provides for the common defense, promotes the general Welfare, and returns the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity. We need a Constitutional convention. We need to stop the Empire, end prohibition, and start the rematch on the class war we lost to Wealthy Rule.

[Peace Patriot]

1. I think we've suffered a 25 year "Ancien Regime" that is near its end, and

that our democracy will recover--due to its longevity, due to the persistent 60/40 anti-Bush, progressive majority in the country (despite relentless propaganda), due to certain activists never giving up on election reform, and due to the overwhelmingly progressive/leftist trend in Latin America (which we myopic northerners haven't been paying much attention to--it is THE news of the western hemisphere).

The "Ancien Regime" was a 30 year period of retrenchment in Europe (restoration of feudal monarchies, landed nobility, state religion, etc.), after the astounding revolutions of the late 18th century in France and America. Napoleon turned the French revolution toward empire, and was defeated. All the old monarchies were restored by the Congress of Vienna (1815), and, although this stabilized Europe (as to warfare), it spurred worker and human rights revolts (1830-ish) which eventually transformed Europe and England into the liberal democracies of today. (These revolutions were also spurred by industrialization, and in reaction to the excesses of capitalism--i.e., exploitation of human beings.)

OUR "Ancien Regime" started with Reagan and has culminated with Bush II--1980 to 2005. The most important thing that happened under Reagan was the tax code re-write, favoring the rich (the key to it all--the beginning of the junta). The most important things that DIDN'T happen were impeachment of Reagan (for egregious violations of the law in the war on Nicaragua, and other serious crimes), and the dismantling of the offensive (aggressive) military/industrial war machine (never demobilized after WW II) that had fomented war on Vietnam (slaughter of upwards of two million people). After the astonishing anti-war and social progress movements of the 1960s, the fascist elite (which seems always to be with us--latent or overt--and had favored Hitler and the Nazis, if the truth were known) began serious efforts to overturn the peace movement and two hundred years of social progress, increasing equality, increasing enfranchisement and increasing popular rule. This elite had/has no sympathy with the ideals that moved the "common man" to defeat Hitler. They consider the common soldier to be cannon fodder for their self-enrichment schemes. They KNOW that the vast majority of Americans want peace and justice, and good government. Their purpose has been to establish the means--such as corporate news monopolies, and a fraudulent election system--by which to overrule the majority.

History--and its overwhelmingly progressive trend--is against them, just as it was against the "Ancien Regime." It was not possible to re-institute feudalism in Europe. It is not possible to create it here, where it never held sway in the first place. We have never had a king. We have never had a state religion. We have a strong history of increasing equality, built on solid, visionary Constitutional and Bill of Rights foundations. We have in fact--until recently--been the symbol and inspiration to the whole world of freedom and democracy, which are well-rooted here. And, although we DO have a sort of "landed gentry"--our Corporate Rulers and the rich--they represent an INCREASINGLY small minority in a world that is headed very fast in the other direction from elite rule. Our "landed gentry" are being evicted by the Latin Americans, peacefully and democratically. (It's amazing what you can do with transparent elections!) They have alienated allies in Europe, and the people of Europe are wholly against them. The Chinese (who hold their paper) and other Asians are looking at them askance (clearly, we--or, rather, our elite--are now the "paper tiger"). South Korea just basically told them to bugger off. And the trend in Islamic countries is to see our elite as supporting their worst dictators (not to mention seeking to dominate them and steal their oil and other resources.) The trend is toward democracy (very strong) or at the least toward self-determination. Our elite is trying to buck these overwhelming trends, based on a "house of cards" (a failing economy, mortgaged to the hilt; no majority support; and a crippled and demoralized military and gov't professional establishment). They are basically looters and thieves, who don't even have the moral fortitude of the old "Ancien Regime" monarchs and Tories.

I think the question that remains is: How difficult they are going to make it for us to restore democracy here? Will they try a Nazi trip on us? (They seem to be putting the executive dictator powers in place to do so--but those powers may be more related to their need to cover up their criminality than to trying to subdue us with Nazi boots--the most hopeful interpretation of what they're up to currently.) Will they crash our economy and inspire civil unrest? (A possibility.) Will we, on the other hand, peacefully, democratically and methodically restore transparent elections and return to popular rule (as is occurring in South/Central America)?

Stay tuned.

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(I don't seem capable of writing only one paragraph.)