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Commentary on the Video "8
Years"
- by SillyMickel
On this
website, Primal
Spirit: Powerful Catalysts for Fundamental Growth of Self,
Society, and Planet, we haven't
yet had occasion to publish too much, some...not a lot, on
the "powerful catalysts to society" part of the
title . . . until now.
Writing
this commentary I began to realize some important and overlooked
truths concerning one of the issues that our government is
facing currently. As Obama, Pelosi, Leahy, the Republicans, and
all the media struggle over the issue of having a truth
commission to look into possible illegalities committed by
Bush-Cheney, I was flooded with one of those obvious truths, the
common sense kind, that gets lost in the complexities of
personalities and politics.
For
just as on the individual level, as in primal therapy, hidden
TRUTH must be uncovered, faced, dealt with, and ONLY THEN put
behind oneself; so also must society uncover its hidden truths
or it will be sick. And by sick, I mean the same thing that
Santayana meant when he said "A society that does not
remember its history is doomed to repeat it."
So
far, nothing big there. Then it hit me: But if history is not
known, how can one help but repeat it? In the current situation,
if we DO NOT look into what was done by Bush-Cheney during the 8
years that, as my video points out, numerous scholars have
determined was America's first dictatorship, then we will not
have a TRUE history of what happened. And if our history is not
true, then it is fantasy, speculation, or propaganda.
In
that situation, which is our current one, unless we have that
truth commission, we "are doomed to repeat it." Repeat
what? DICTATORSHIP. And the even sadder thing is that when we
fail to learn from our past experience, whether as individuals
or societies or nations, when it repeats, it repeats in a bigger
form, carrying more impact, force, devastation … more dire
consequences.
We
have numerous historical examples of this pattern in recent
history alone - on both sides. When Germany, South Africa, and
Japan faced and dealt with the horribles of their recent past
(after WWII for Germany and Japan; after the end of apartheid
for South Africa), they went forward and prospered tremendously,
even phenomenally.
Everyone
quotes Santayana on history repeating. How then can no one seem
to make the connection that your history has to be TRUE HISTORY
not a web of lies hiding deep and festering wrongs. So it is
just as important for nations and societies to uncover its
repressed truth, in order to heal, as it is for the Individual
And
just as on the individual level, if our nation -- specifically
right now our government -- continues to deny, refuses to let
our truth rise up to heal us, or simply, as Obama may end up
doing, look the other way on the grounds that there are more
important things to deal with, well then as a nation -- just as
individuals, we are driven to continually re-enact our biggest
mistakes over and over despite our best efforts not to -- so
also on the level of the nation or society, we will fix a
problem only to see it rise up again during the next election
cycle.
In
fact, it is exactly that lack of facing the truth that has led
to the current global economic implosion, started here in the
U.S. Reaganomics caused that; we are finally admitting on our
talk shows. Yet we had 12 years of Reaganomics from 1981 through
1992. And during that time, we saw how effective it was: it not
only almost quadrupled the national debt during the 12 years of
Reagan and Bush, Sr., it not only severely unbalanced the
budget, but it caused a recession so important that it led to
Clinton winning the Presidency on the slogan "It's the
economy, stupid!"
Despite
the fact the Clinton reversed that downswing dramatically by
REVERSING Reaganomics; and despite the fact that his policies
helped create one of the most prosperous decades in recent
history, even leaving a surplus for the next administration, not
a peep was heard about the disastrous experiment Reaganomics
turned out to be.
Apparently
our country was not about to call Reagan wrong at that time; too
many idiots felt that somehow we had to treat him like a nice
Grandad and not say anything unseemly, regardless of how the
rest of the country would fare. I fear there were more
insidious reasons than that for not broadcasting what we had
learned, as such a cost.
And it
was just that lack of truth-telling of the obvious, so as not to
smear Reagan, though his economics was a horrible failure and it
had been proven to be so, that allowed Bush to come in and go
about doing Reagan's mistake, only doing it several powers
greater and doing it sooner. Bush came in and gave the budget
surplus to the wealthy, without a peep from any in the media or
any outrage on the part of Americans, most of whom had suffered
through the recession only a decade earlier.
(cont'd
top, next col.)
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Hear
SillyMickel's rendition of this commentary
on the Video "8 Years," titled
"To Avoid Our Next Dictatorship:
Why America MUST have a
Thorough Truth Commission of the Bush-Cheney Crimes, for How Can We Avoid Repeating History
if It Is Hidden From Us?"
Audio
Player
(cont'd from prev. col.)
But
the average American would not know economics like the experts,
the media, and the government. So it was tragic to refuse to point
out that Bush's ideas had already been tried by Reagan and his
father with horrible consequences. Everyone kept quiet and
suppressed the knowledge of their own experience.
What
happened? We "were doomed to repeat it," only karma
seemed to have a part because we are not just repeating it. We are
being punished severely with one of the worst economic downturns
in America's history; and it seems to me we deserve it because
obviously the lesser medicine did not teach Americans and their
media and leaders a damn thing; but with this one; oh, well, NOW,
we are hearing that trickle-down Reaganomics started it all. So if
we are too stupid to learn from a mistake, that mistake will come
back bigger and bigger until we wake up and realize that the path
we are on is not working.
Now
this is very important, why?
Because
scholars have determined that in studying the actions of
Bush-Cheney, America, for the first time in its history, went into
a dictatorship, meaning that their policies, which involved
tossing out the Constitution, and pillar-by-pillar removing the
foundations of our rights, our freedoms, and our democracy,
including even the right to have a vote that will be counted, or
more specifically, will be counted in favor of the person you
voted for, not counted toward the opponent. Consider that the ones
with expertise in poring over all the documents and data have
determined that we had a smokescreen of democracy and freedom
talk, but that actually we were living in a dictatorship.
There
are scholars galore putting out books delineating the ways in
which our Executive Branch acted as literal traitors, and worse,
to America, and list the grounds upon which Bush and Cheney would
be tried for murder, for starters, if they were anyone else in
America.
If
these truths are not faced by our country, God help us. For just
as voodoo economics returned, with results many, many times worse
than the first time; well, what can we imagine would happen if we
don't face the truth about the dictatorship of George W. Bush, the
loss of rights and freedom and honest elections?
For
one thing, consider how easily this dictator rose to power. Our
supposed democracy didn't stop him, like it is assumed democracy
will. If we don't take in that lesson, not only are we doomed to
repeat these horrible eight years, but we are leaving a door wide
open for the next one; and if you think you have to have
concentration camps in order to see dictatorship, well, gee, just
guess what you are going to get under the next American dictator.
And
this will surely happen for it is simple common sense that anyone
would understand if it were related to something in their
commercial life. You don't see farmers feeding the wrong kind of
grain to their livestock more than one time, do you; can you even
imagine it? Than why would we think that we can ignore finding out
what happened and fixing it in order to keep something worse than
it from happening in the future when it comes to politics?
Is it
that we think that as Americans we are immune from something so
horrible? Then are we a nation of Pollyannas? And how many
Katrinas, Iraqs, Vietnams, Bush-Cheneys, being rated at the bottom
in health care among developed nations, having one of the shortest
life expectancies among developed nations, having one of the worst
educational systems, and having one of the lowest standards of
livings among developed nations kinds of events is it going to
take before people stop engaging in magical thinking, believing
the things that pandering Republicans will tell them to hide these
facts, instead of taking their truth from the experiences of their
own lives?
I hope
all Americans and our representatives will resist the tendency to
run away from the unpleasant past and instead find ways, and there
are plenty of easy ways, to turn and face the darkness behind us,
so that we will not be forced to walk through an even blacker and
more horrible darkness before us.
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