Now the consequences will start to come—the necessarily delayed reactions—to the huge release of energy let loose by the American people in recent days against those who, in Presidential candidate Diane Sare’s memorable phrase, had “traumatized them” for years before with increasingly unbearable physical and moral conditions of life. Perhaps the reaction began the night of Nov. 9, when the nervy outgoing Congressman Thomas Massie held a press conference to say, again, that the Secretary of Defense threatens the Constitution with amoral murders as long as he remains in his position, and must be impeached. Perhaps it began the morning of Nov. 10, when the Secretary of Defense held his own nervous press conference to try to answer the charges. Perhaps the charges, instead, begin to ricochet around the boorish Epstein class of billionaires and their bureaucrats.
But since the people of the United States, and other nations who have been unpredictably rising up in demonstrations and elections, have as yet had no other wise leadership, no alternative to war and xenophobic mutual conflict, what are the chances that these long-delayed reactions will go to stable peace, let alone mutual development? If the Trump Administration somehow mediates a pause in the Ukraine war, what are the chances that it becomes a lasting solution, that the many European and other imps of the geopolitical perverse don’t reignite war within a few months? If the Trump Administration somehow settles for “winning” the Iran War which it actually lost, what is the chance that Israel does not destroy that settlement? For that matter, if Israel’s opposition now forms a new government, what about the fact that its principals share the same brutal views of Palestinian Arabs as the Netanyahu governments?
And if the meeting at APEC Nov. 18-19 among Presidents Xi, Trump, and Putin somehow comes to an understanding that nuclear war cannot be won and must not be fought, how will that affect the causes of war among them? How will it affect the notorious American anti-China, anti-Russia war-hawks who dominate the Congressional Democratic as well as the Congressional Republican Parties?
The camel, it seems, will as easily pass through the eye of the needle, as even these extraordinary events will lead to stable peace and development. It will take miracles.
Which we have just seen, for example, in Brazil. Students took responsibility, by the thousands, for the older voters, and thereby for the nation. When they began demonstrating after Lula’s first-round loss by 2 million votes, it seemed that only a miracle could reverse a result that had not been reversed in all of Brazil’s 20th century history.
What began with Diane Sare’s Independent campaign event on the evening of Nov. 8, and the introduction of her new website to track boththe program and the responsibility for victory over the coming two years, is the only real location to look for such a “miracle.” It will require the help of the American people as they, hopefully, take growing responsibility for their own actions on their own republic and its economy. But although a “miracle,” it can be hoped for. And in other nations, with the hope of an international youth movement which is actually tied directly to the same campaign as to the International Peace Coalition, we can work on other miracles as well.
