Be Thankful: Proud Force Worked Once, Will Win Again
(SALEM) - It is the wit, the wisdom, and the indomitable will of the American people that made this nation one of the greatest in all world history -- and will do so again.
NOT because of world power expressed in arrogance and via weaponry.
NOT because of world domination by the dollar, in trade or towering edifice for effective corporate cash-mongering.
Not because of stock-tradings, currency-manipulations, or conglomerate consolidations.
Not because of world control via even so potent a force as the atom itself.
But truly by force of wit and wisdom -- “the American way”.
It is the wit to know what is demanded for human freedoms; to provide dialog and definition leading to decision by vote.
The wisdom to work out ways-to-get-there, even under the cloud of human slavery.
The wisdom to overtake and overwhelm overpowering corporate control when it contrives to favor the few at the life-costs of the many --as once in Teddy’s time, again with FDR, and now...again.
The wisdom to put away the wily ones devouring democracy via their ongoing onslaughts and canny contrivances politically.
The wisdom to maintain our free press despite corporate control.
Then the wisdom to know how to do, eventually, what is right for the common wealth and the common man and woman; and thus to create the possibilities and probabilities demanded to do the will finally expressed by the people themselves.
But it is that dominating will-to-make democracy work that guides, shapes, strengthens and determines what we make of ourselves --and our world.
Op Ed:Salem-News.com