In a desperate attempt to get my Democratic Representative and Senators to get it, I wrote this short piece quoting the most crucial bits of Krugman's The Great Unraveling (which in turn quotes Kissinger) and sent it to them.
If your Congresspeople remain as resolutely clueless as mine, please feel free to copy and send the same letter, or any mash-up of it you like.
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The topic is the Constitutional Crisis. Please read and understand this material, from Paul Krugman's The Great Unraveling (Introduction):
"...Kissinger describes the problems confronting a heretofore stable diplomatic system when it is faced with a 'revolutionary power' -- a power that does not accept that system's legitimacy.... It seems clear to me that one should regard America's right-wing movement... as a revolutionary power in Kissinger's sense. That is, it is a movement whose leaders do not accept the legitimacy of our current political system."
You need only look at the record to see that this is true. But I fear you, like so many other Democrats in Congress, don't yet really understand it.
Kissinger wrote:
"Lulled by a period of stability which had seemed permanent, they find it nearly impossible to take a face value the assertion of the revolutionary power that it means to smash the existing framework.... tend to begin by treating the revolutionary power as if... it really accepted the existing legitimacy but overstated its case for bargaining purposes.... But it is the essence of a revolutionary power that it possesses the courage of its convictions..."
The right-wing, led by Bush and Cheney, are trying to destroy democracy, liberty, the rule of law, and the Bill of Rights, as well as the social safety net, and they will do anything to succeed.
Do you get it? Because if we are to defeat them, our Congress members need to get it. If you get it, you can act rationally; if you don't, you are doomed to failure.
Please think about this and reply. Do you recognize the revolutionary, anti-American nature of Bush/Cheney's right-wing movement?