Rolling the stone up the hill

[Minstrel Boy]

This passage reminds me why I mourn America as much as I fear her:

"Now I realized what makes our generation unique, what defines us apart from those who came before the hopeful winter of 1961, and those who came after the murderous spring of 1968. We are the first generation that learned from experience that things were not getting better, that we shall not overcome. We felt, by the time we reached thirty, that we had already glimpsed the most compassionate leaders our nation could produce, and they had all been assassinated. And from this time forward, things would get worse: our best political leaders were part of memory now, not hope. The stone was at the bottom of the hill and we were alone."
- Jack Newfield, Robert F Kennedy: A Memoir

You can't even see the crest of the hill today, but it's still there.

So, friends and neighbours, before the republic of Guthrie and Twain is forever eclipsed by the empire of Cheney and Bush, and before the Homeland buries America, roll up your sleeves, put your shoulder to it and PUSH.

[K-W]

1. The stone isnt at the bottom of the hill

expecting constant progress is unrealistic, but of course the only way to get it rolling again is to push. Out of the ashes of bush's america we need to work towards more progress.

[izzie]

2. I do think it has always been some what like this.

Things go up and down and for people who feel society and the gov should work to gether, we are moving towards the low mark in the wave.Bush and company seem to be of the other side of things. Men , special men, should rule and gov should do as they want. The people are left out.Until people wake up it will go this way. Unless the people turn over their power to these people. It has been done before in History.Rome lost it all to a few at the top and in this time Germany did.I can not recall about church states but they are also in there and they did not work either.Maybe Bush is setting up a "Middle Age' country where the church backs the rulers, and pays no tax and the serfs(us) do the work and pay the tax and the rulers take the serfs to feed the army. This is not going back to Hoovers days but to the dark ages of Europe. I fear Bush would think that a good plan. A man of little inside and belief in his own greatness is really scary.