Jane Smiley writes about John McCain as the republican nominee for president. [I think he will become the nominee for republicans.] I've thought that he's the "least" of all the bad republicans running, but Jane Smiley has a good point about McCain's delusions of American grandeur that would just prolong the pain we've endured for so long.
--- T
"Any Republican president would be a disaster, but McCain would be the biggest disaster of all, because, both by who he is and what he professes, he encourages the US, as Reagan did, to engage in sentimental, nostalgic wishful thinking about the effects of American "goodness" and "power". The nation, which is at last waking up to the disasters of the last twenty-eight years--the disasters of the "free market" and "making the world safe for democracy" as a cover for ruthless exploitation of all natural resources no matter where they are and who owns them--would succumb the fantasy again, at least long enough for those disasters to be compounded and rendered absolutely unfixable. McCain is a walking delusion--that we really are brave, that we meant well, that mistakes were made but the policies themselves were sound. McCain reassures us that we weren't so bad after all, when we were. We can't come to terms with why the US is in the pickle it is in without consigning McCain to the dustheap."
Read the whole article here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jane-smiley/the-bogeyman_b_83480.html
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