Bill Ayers

We love our children. The World War II war correspondent Martha Gellhorn noted that we Americans are famous the world around for loving our children, and that many think we love them unwisely and too well. Perhaps we’re so busy loving our own children that we fail to notice that other mothers in other lands— poor mothers, brown-skinned mothers—also love their children, but with anguish now, and fear, because our American government menaces them.

The deranged optimism and single-minded self-importance of wealthy white men defines the current political class—it is so distinctly made-in-America.

Here’s what it means to engage in an asynchronous war, using the US/Israel attack on Iran as a case-in-point:
Iran wins if it doesn’t lose; the US loses if it doesn’t win.

Donald Trump’s arrogance knows no limits, and his pomposity can be at once comic and terrifying. His administration is indeed a fascist regime bucked up by a minority fascist movement—although the US is not yet a fascist society. And this is where a major conflict emerges.
Trump’s swagger becomes more lethal every day, making him a perfect target for a growing resistance. But the question being contested in the streets—through banners and chants as well as countless face-to-face dialogues—and throughout society is whether this advancing popular energy will be channeled exclusively into the electoral arena by the leaders of the Democratic Party, or whether it can lead us to a more robust conversation and a more thoroughgoing effort to reimagine, repair, and rebuild society on a more fundamental and just basis.
In this regard people are increasingly aware that the crises we’re facing are the result of bipartisan policies for decades: Democrats and Republicans alike built the military behemoth that menaces the world; both parties have been desperately threatening other countries with the goal of holding on to the dwindling US hegemony in the world economy; both parties funded Israel and provided diplomatic cover for Israeli lawlessness; both supported the astronomical growth of prisons, the militarization of domestic police forces, the shifting of public assets to private hands, and any resistance to universal, publicly-funded healthcare.

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