Richard Land, in the NYTimes article yesterday, said that Wallis “conflates” efforts to alleviating poverty with “democratic” ways. NO, he DOESN’T. Wallis has the SAME MESSAGE for Presidents and administrations of BOTH and ALL Parties, and has so for 30 plus years since Sojoutners began. Land assumes that “Republican” efforts (specifically this administration, which moves everything in the opposite direction and calls it “the best for everybody”. That’s convenient, since it lets them TOTALLY off the hook from having to DO ANYTHING, other than what their chosen “moral” party has convinced them is the case.

BOth parties certainly have their corporate loyalties and political compromises; but no administration in this century has been so anabashed at kissing the butts of big money; and so propaganda-centered in their approach. It seems as if the real activity is the funnneling of money as quickly as possible in as many as possible ways to the top, and then cover it all in sugar and talk of “freedom and liberty”, while somehow pulling off an image of being “common folks”. Seeing this administration at work has sensitized me to histories such as Zinn’s A People’s History (in which I have reached page 250). Great book, and VERY educational. But of course, there are those who think it blasphemy against this great nation of ours (note the religious language and reverence used to defend nationalism, and how it is equated with some sort of theological blasphemy; as if God and country are the same.)

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