This
weeks US presidential election confirmed the thoughts of many
thinkers. America's party system is declining faster than anyone
believed. Political polarisation and bitterness is dragging the US
back to mid 19th century. Issues are not
about slavery or economic self interest but a systemic crisis which challenges every major revolutionary period. With this Democratic election
victory, an existential split in US society is cemented between
those who seize progress with social change and those afraid to grasp
a reality that to stay in the past, is to be lost there forever.
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| Tales of Two Americas symbolised in Democratic liberal expression and Republican fundamentalism. Can God save the Grand Old Party from terminal decline. |
Against today's backdrop of a worst recession since the great
depression, by any book, the Grand Old Party (GOP) should have won
over the President. It was there for the taking. The presidents men
knew this. In a carefully planned campaign they simply underscored
the obvious. America's future is no longer white and fundamentalist.
America has reignited its original multi-cultural roots for renewed
global status. Democrats know the Republican party can only enter into
terminal decline as post election reaction in that party swings more
and more towards Christian fundamentalism and certain death.
Lets
face it; who in their right mind wants to follow a Mormon President.
Mitt Romney is not just a church member in name like most people
today. No, he is a disciple and a preacher. That means he believes in some of the most incredible, far fetching notions ever
served up to mankind in the form of an organised religion. A cocktail
of bewildering fantasy which makes Star Trek and Harry Potter look a
slow day in parliament.
America
is divided. But one side has a future while the other is consigned to
fade and wither over time. As the current Republican party dies from
old age, Democrats grow with youth and modernity.
You
will never hear a Republican president speak ever again “God
Bless America” and actually believe in it.
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