WORST CASE SENARIO
Many people like to look constantly at the bright side of living and, while I can see the merit of such a path, I also feel, rather strongly, that we must, from time-to-time, take an honest, forthright look at potential dangers we may have to face.
Now, during this election time of the year 2004 is such a moment. It may well be a time of radical change.
I cannot think of a time when we have been in such a state as we now seem to be and people are reacting in some odd ways to a circumstances and conditions. We are currently involved in a war that, which, while it is real and makes demands upon us all, does not conform to what a war generally should be in many people's views. Support for the war against Terrorism wavers .It has been dangerously politicized and re-named as “Bush's War” used as an election ploy. This is dangerous enough, but those who are doing so out of warped political party loyalty are admitting they do not realize that this war is far more than a misunderstanding with one small nation called Iraq. It is a time for all of us to see that this is a continuing phase in the old conflict between major religious faiths and that the more we deny that it is, the worse it becomes.
I sincerely hope that it may not work out this way ,but, if the current mood persists and narrow party politics continue to be as flexible and as unprincipled as they seem to be in many areas, we face a time when an immense army of “peace” persons might co-agulate as a major force in our political life. A Democratic Party candidate, willing to wave the bloody shirt throughout the land, could easily gather an overwhelming majority from existing party followers, holdovers, and Republicans and existing peace party persons and others who have lost faith in George Bush for whatever reason. It would take little effort at all for such a candidate, holding high a gaudy peace banner, to show senior citizen how their Medicare funds are being wasted on armaments; to show young people how their future Social Security funds are being drained away, how children, single mothers and widows are being starved to death by underfunded welfare programs.
Such a national “peace” movement may seem unlikely to many. I am not saying it even “may” happen, but I am pointing out that the possibility is there, and that we must avoid such a tragic pitfall. The ultimate consequence of such a thing are beyond our comprehension.
A.L.M. February 8, 2004 [c459wds]
