Is U.S. being transformed into a radical republic?

[Roland99]

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.radical23apr23,0,7907127.story

We Americans came not from a revolution but from an evolution.

That is in large part why our so-called revolution produced success while most throughout history did not. We came as much from the Magna Carta as from our own doings, as much from British common law and parliamentary development as from the Declaration of Independence and Continental Congress.

Unlike the true revolution on the other side of the Atlantic that led to Napoleon's dictatorship and strife and conflict all across Europe, our evolution founded the greatest country the world has ever seen. That was true in every element of power and in the uniqueness that makes us great, our constant striving for "a more perfect union" and, as we do so, our open arms for the other peoples of the world "yearning to be free."

As Alexis de Tocqueville once said: "America is great because she is good. If America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great."

In January 2001, with the inauguration of George W. Bush as president, America set on a path to cease being good; America became a revolutionary nation, a radical republic. If our country continues on this path, it will cease to be great - as happened to all great powers before it, without exception.

[Wilms]

1. Since the 1980 election, in my view. n/t

[Igel]

2. It would be of interest to hear exactly where

Tocqueville was when he said the great sounding line, and who the witness was that wrote it down. Because it's not in the usually cited source (viz. _Democracy in America_)... and no other's been suggested.

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. Look at the author - Lawrence Wilkerson

He's really speaking out now. I've got to wonder how he managed to serve as Powell's Chief of Staff till 2005, if this is the way he feels. I think the article is right, but couldn't he have said this earlier, and resigned publicly?

[Roland99]

4. What were they afraid of?

being suicided?


Or are they now seeing a chance to make some $$ on general sentiments against the war?

[DUHandle]

5. Yes it is.