Editor,
Dan Krotz’s recent social commentary reminded me of Kurt Vonnegut’s A Man Without a Country.
The values within Eureka and surroundings are not at all in opposition among varied political-social groups. It is the means by which the power of these concepts is used, or deployed, which offers the greatest potential for change in the way our elected representatives perceive and react to our needs.
A lever without a fulcrum is just another stick. The voice, wisdom and solutions of the common people and usurpation of the people’s authority is perhaps the gravest threat our democracy faces.
As news agents have carefully detailed, elected leaders respond only to the oligarchs, the Party and the few whose interest or need can be conscripted to serve them. The arrests, particularly of the aged and ill in wheelchairs and on stretchers at ACA hearings, are living proofs. Letters through the print media are the single assured means of holding our elected accountable for receipt of content.
The political demand that the 10 Commandments be displayed – the Law of Moses, the Jewish prophet, might presuppose an implied intent to convert Americans to a Jewish sectarian faith.
As KV says however, if the words of Jesus were ideally placed – “Blessed are the merciful” in every courtroom, and “blessed are the peacemakers” in the Pentagon, Congress and the White House War Room – real progress might be made. Trump’s focus on exclusive reliefs for the working class, law enforcement and military, is imposed market imperialism, designed to support business and government revenues.
The optimal use of power requires lever, fulcrum, and the ability to harness the already existing motion, so that a changed direction is won.
Laura L Coker