Erudite Partner is up with a new essay, syndicated by TomDispatch, and appearing among other places at the LA Progressive.
This one is an exercise in reflection on a long life of struggle for more peace, more justice, and basic sanity. It meets our strange, terrifying moment.
On Seeing the Future Too Clearly
... [On living through the Vietnam war...] We may not have foreseen it all — the assassinations, carpet bombings, tiger cages, and the Phoenix Program (the CIA’s first mass torture scheme) — but we were hardly surprised when it all finally came out. Today, there’s a consensus in this country that the Vietnam War was more than a mistake; it was a decade-long exercise in overreach and overkill.
... I sometimes think it’s the fate of many progressives for once in our lives to be right — over and over. This isn’t because we’re particularly good people, although some of my heroes are indeed good people. It’s at least in part because we are people with good luck.
It’s been our good luck that, at some time in our lives, somebody offered us a place to stand, a viewpoint, an ethical way of grasping the world. ...
The advent of Trump/MAGA fascism demands of us, again, that we ask ourselves, where do we stand and why?
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