POLITICS: A Constitution for the Third Millennium (OK, the 21st Century)
I find this Clip of Cobert humorous yes, bc it expresses how I feel, but it makes me concerned. It demonstrates why separating the person from the office is near impossible.
When this or others lash out at this unpresidential President it is contributing to the cycle of disrespect we feel or act out upon at the Presidency.
Who is to blame? We all are, except maybe that 1% who are completely disengaged. That is to say it is easy to point a finger at the President, or to his GOP supporters in Congress or the people who voted for him. We can also blame a system that forces dichotomies and our complicit support in this system while we’ve seen it grow.
We have become Israel/Palestine. A region whose people is defined by a righteous sense of victimization leading to policy paralysis and a status quo that leaves the mist vulnerable further exposed.
The industrial age of the early 20th Century lead to the creation of a growing middle class. A phenomena that many countries are just arriving at. But in the US (and other places) the Digital Age has caused such a shift in information, communications, and financial transaction — instituions at the core of political systems — that we need to completely reimagine our system of governance, bureaucracy, politics, and economics.
It is time for the US to again lead the world and come up with a new constitution. One that pivots from the lessons of the last 40 years and takes us the next 250 years through a focus on our new understanding of equality, human value, ecological value, and everyone with equal access towards fulfilling personal meaning.
What would it mean to create a new “MoveOn” movement focused on the creation of not a new century, but a new millennium.
Forget focusing on Trump. He’s a symptom. We need to start focusing on the problem. Trump is the type of symptom that camouflages the disease. It wants you to focus on him. The more we do, the more we play into the disease, the more we become infected ourselves — and regardless of politics we are infected.
