Puna: TomDispatch.com
As I lived through the nightmare of the election campaign just past, I often found myself dreaming of another American world entirely. Anything but this one.
I loko o ia manaʻo, ʻike wau iaʻu iho e nānā ana i ke kiʻi o kaʻu papa ʻehā, vintage 1972. Hoʻopaʻa ʻia i ka paia ma hope o ko mākou mau poʻo he collage, kahi ʻano ʻano lole i hiki iaʻu ke ʻike maopopo. Ua hoʻāla ʻia ka ʻōlelo hoʻohiki a me ka haunaele o ka makahiki haunaele i hala. Ua waiho ʻia ka ʻōlelo hoʻohiki i loko o kahi ʻāpana e heluhelu ana i ka "maluhia" a ua komo pū me ka hae ecology ʻōmaʻomaʻo, kahi mea pāʻani baseball ʻeleʻele (Brooklyn Dodgers lua o ka baseman Jackie Robinson, ka mea i make i kēlā makahiki), a me ka lima lima i loko o ka outline o ka hōʻailona no ka wahine ( ke kū nei i ka wahine hou o ia manawa a me ka hoʻoikaika ʻana i nā pono kaulike no nā wahine).
E hōʻike ana i ka haunaele o ia au he mau kiʻi o nā B-52 e hoʻolei ana i nā pōkā ma Vietnam (he kaua e hoʻomau ʻia ana) a me kahi hōʻike no ke kiaʻāina ʻo Alabama racist a me ka moho pelekikena ʻo George Wallace (no ka mea paha ʻo ia i kī ʻia a ʻeha i kahi hoʻāʻo pepehi kanaka ia Mei). Ua hoʻomanaʻo mai iaʻu i kahi rocket i kapa ʻia ʻo "USA" e hoʻomaka ana kēia ʻāina i nā misionari lanakila ʻo Apollo i ka mahina.
How far we’ve come in not quite half a century! In 2020, “peace” isn’t even a word in the American ke kālai'āina puke wehewehe'ōlelo; ʻoiai ʻo Greta Thunberg, kahi neʻe hoʻololi e ulu nei, a me Joe Biden two-trillion-dollar ʻo ka hoʻolālā ea, ʻo ke kaiaola nui he manaʻo haole i ke koho balota i hala iho nei ʻoiai ua ʻae nā ʻaoʻao politika ʻelua i ka fracking a me nā wahie mōʻalihaku (ʻoiai inā ʻo Biden ka apo liʻiliʻi paʻa); Ua pilikia maoli ka Major League Baseball he emi ana i nā mea pāʻani ʻApelika-ʻAmelika i nā makahiki i hala iho nei; a ʻo ka ʻimi ʻana i ka like ʻana o nā wahine e mau nō hoʻokō ʻole ʻia.
Ke hoʻomau nei ka pahū ʻana, ʻoiaʻiʻo, ʻoiai ʻo kēlā mau pōkā a me nā missiles i kēia manawa ke manaʻo nui nei i nā kipi Islamist like ʻole ma mua o nā komunista, a ua hana pinepine ʻia e drones, ʻaʻole nā B-52, ʻoiai ua hoʻohana mau ʻia kēlā mau mokulele hanohano weliweli ʻO Moscow a me Beijing me ka make nuklea. Ua hoʻololi ʻia ʻo George Wallace e Donald Trump, he racist nāna ua huli ʻO ka hoʻolālā hema a Pelekikena Richard Nixon o koʻu mau makahiki kula papa i lanakila pelekikena aupuni ma 2016 a ʻo ia hoʻi, ma ke ʻano he pelekikena, maʻamau. kunou ma ke ala of white supremacists.
Holomua, kekahi? ʻOiaʻiʻo, ua hōʻike ʻia kēlā kiʻi papa aʻu i ka hae o Kina, he mea hoʻomanaʻo ua uhaʻi ʻo Nixon i kahi kahua hou i kēlā makahiki ma o ka huakaʻi ʻana i Beijing e hui me ke alakaʻi Komunist Kina ʻo Mao Zedong a hoʻohaʻahaʻa i ke kaua anuanu o ke au. I kēia mau lā, lohe wale ka poʻe ʻAmelika ʻo Kina ka pūʻali koa a me ka hoʻoweliweli waiwai; ʻO Joe Biden a me kekahi poʻe Democrats i ʻōlelo ʻia he mamao loa Pilikia Kina (ʻaʻole lākou); a ʻo Covid-19 (ʻo ia ka "Wuhan Flu" a i ʻole "Kung Flu") - ma ka liʻiliʻi loa iā Donald Trump a me kāna poʻe hahai - he ahulau i hoʻouna ʻia e ka Kina e pepehi iā mākou.
ʻO kekahi hōʻailona mai kēlā tapestry, he ʻāpana chess, i hoʻomanaʻo mai iaʻu i ka makahiki 1972 ua ʻike mākou i ka hui kaulana ʻo Cold War ma waena o ka poʻe ʻōpio, akamai, inā ʻo Bobby Fischer a me ka poʻokela chess Soviet ʻo Boris Spassky i kahi pāʻani i hoʻāla i ka hysteria a me ka paranoia a pau. Kaua anu. Hoʻoikaika ʻia e Fischer, ua hoʻomaka wau e pāʻani iaʻu iho a lilo wau i lālā lawe kāleka o ka US Chess Federation a hiki i koʻu ʻike ʻana ua kaupalena ʻia kaʻu talena.
Ua pau ka makahiki 1972 me ka lanakila ʻana o ka Repubalika Richard Nixon ma luna o ke Senatoa Demokarata ʻO George McGovern, nāna i lawe wale i koʻu mokuʻāina home ʻo Massachusetts. Ma hope o ka lanakila ʻana o Nixon, hoʻomanaʻo wau i nā mea hoʻopaʻa paʻa i ʻōlelo ʻia: "Mai hoʻopiʻi mai iaʻu no Nixon, no Massachusetts wau."
Eighteen years later, in 1990, I would briefly meet the former senator. He was attending a history symposium on the Vietnam War at the U.S. Air Force Academy and, as a young Air Force captain, I chased down a book for him in the Academy’s library. I don’t think I knew then of McGovern’s stellar combat record in World War II. A skilled pilot, he had flown 35 mau mikanele kaua i loko o ka B-24 bomber, lanakila i ka Distinguished Flying Cross no, i kekahi manawa, ua hoʻopaʻa maikaʻi i kahi mokulele i pōʻino nui ʻia e ke ahi ʻenemi a hoʻopakele i kāna poʻe holo moku. ʻO Nixon, ka mea i lawelawe ma ka Navy i kēlā kaua, ʻaʻole i ʻike i ke kaua. Akā ua ʻike ʻo ia i nā manawa he nui ma ka pākaukau poker, lanakila a huina kālā maʻemaʻe, āna e hoʻolele ai i kāna hoʻolaha politika mua.
E like me ka nui o nā koa kaua o ka "hanauna nui loa," ʻaʻole i haʻaheo ʻo McGovern e pili ana i kāna hana kaua. I loko naʻe o nā makahiki, ua pili loa kēlā kanaka ʻAmelika noʻonoʻo, hanohano, wiwo ʻole me ka maluhia, ke aloha, a me ka hoomaopopo. He mea pale paʻa i nā pono kīwila, he manaʻoʻiʻo i ke aupuni holomua, he kūʻē kūpaʻa no ke Kaua Vietnam, e ʻike ʻo ia iā ia iho e hoʻomāliʻi ʻia e nā Repubalika ma ke ʻano he nāwaliwali, aneane makaʻu ʻole, ma nā mea kaua a me ka anti-capitalist (ʻo ia ka mea like i kēia lā o ka democratic- socialist Bernie Sanders).
ʻIke ʻia, ʻaʻole hiki i kēia ʻāina i kēlā manawa a ʻaʻole hiki ke ʻae i kekahi moho ʻaoʻao nui ʻaʻole i manaʻoʻiʻo i kahi pūʻali koa nui a me kahi aupuni e lawelawe mua ana i ka ʻoihana a me ka ʻoihana a i ʻole a i ʻole, ʻaʻole loaʻa kā mākou koho i 2020. ʻO Trump-Pence me Biden-Harris.
Kahea ana ia Lloyd Bentsen
I koʻu hoʻomaka ʻana e kākau i kēia ʻāpana i ka hopena o ʻOkakopa, ʻaʻole au i ʻike e lanakila maoli ʻo Joe Biden i ke koho balota ʻoi loa o ko mākou ola ʻana. ʻO kaʻu mea i ʻike ai, ʻo ka ʻāina i hana mua (a laila hōʻole) i nā ʻāina noʻonoʻo e like me George McGovern. emi nui. Ke makemake nui nei ka hapa nui o ʻAmelika i ka loli, no laila e haʻi mai ka poʻe koho balota iā mākou, inā paha mākou e kapa iā mākou iho he Republicans a Democrats, conservatives, liberals, a i ʻole socialists. ʻO nā hoʻolaha koho balota ʻelua, akā naʻe, ua hoʻohiki liʻiliʻi iā mākou akā ʻo kā lākou mau mana ponoʻī o ke kūlana quo, ʻoiai ʻo Donald Trump ka mea kupanaha.
I ka ʻoiaʻiʻo, ʻaʻole i hopohopo ʻo Trump e hōʻike i kahi hoʻolālā no kekahi mea, me ka lawe ʻana i ka maʻi maʻi ma lalo o ka mana. Ua hoʻohiki ʻo ia i ʻehā mau makahiki hou o ka Keeping America Trumpish Again me kahi ʻoki ʻauhau kālā hou i hoʻolei ʻia. Ke alo nei i kahi koho i loko o kahi ʻāina e ulu nui nei, me ka nui o nā hihia Covid-19 ma ka mokuʻāina ma hope o ka mokuʻāina a me nā halemai i hoʻonui nui ʻia, ua nui ka poʻe o mākou i ʻimi i ka hoʻomaha. opioids or kūʻai pū, nā maʻamau maikaʻi ʻole e like me nā meaʻai momona a me ka hoʻoikaika ʻole, a ka malama ole e pili ana i nā hana palekana maʻi maʻi.
Since the presidencies of Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, and especially since September 11, 2001, it’s amazing what Americans have come to accept as normal. Forget about peace, love, and understanding. What we now see on America’s streets aren’t antiwar protesters or even beat cops, but Robocops paʻa i nā niho me nā mea kaua ʻano kaua e hana ʻole ʻia hana ino. Hoʻohanohano ʻia nā "militia" extremist e like me ka Proud Boys (e kekahi) ma ke ʻano he "patriots." Ludicrous QAnon manaʻo kipi lawe nui loa ia me na moho kalaiaina ma ka aoao Repubalika o ke alahele e laina ana e kakoo ia lakou.
Even six-figure death tolls from a raging pandemic were normalized as President Trump barnstormed the country, e paipai ana iaia iho to maskless crowds at nā hui hoʻolaha nui no ka mālama ʻana i ka make ʻana o Covid-19 ma lalo o ka helu kuhi he 2.2 miliona. I kēia manawa, ʻaʻohe mea i ʻike ʻia e ke koena o mākou e hoʻolauleʻa ai - ma nā huaʻōlelo Vietnam - hiki ke manaʻo ʻia he helu kino hou, i kēia manawa ma ʻaneʻi ma ka ʻāina hānau.
A e kamaʻilio e pili ana i nā helu kino e hiki mai ana, e noʻonoʻo hou i ka ʻO nā keikikāne keiki ka mea a ko kakou peresidena i kela hoopaapaa peresidena mua ninau e "kū i hope a kū ma." ʻOiaʻiʻo, ʻaʻole ia he militia, ʻoi aku ka maikaʻi o ka wehewehe ʻana he pūʻulu. E pani i kou mau maka a e noʻonoʻo ʻoe he ʻeleʻele nā keikikāne Haʻaheo. He aha kā lākou e kapa ʻia ai e ka poʻe ma ka ʻaoʻao ʻākau? He hoʻoweliweli, ʻo ka mea liʻiliʻi loa, a ʻoi aku paha ka ʻino.
ʻO ka pūʻali koa maoli, aia ma lalo o ka mana kūloko, mokuʻāina, a i ʻole federal me kahi kaulahao a me kahi code o ka hoʻopaʻi ʻana, ʻaʻole wale he pūʻulu o nā poʻe malihini e pāʻani ana i ka ʻaʻahu koa a me ka hao ʻana no ka hakakā. He nui naʻe ka poʻe ʻAmelika e ʻike iā lākou ma o ka lens militarized, e hoʻomaikaʻi ana i kēlā mau "kāne" i ko lākou nalu ʻana i nā hae pro-police blue-line a hoʻōho "mea ola āpau." ʻO nā hae a lākou e kāʻei ai iā lākou iho, ʻoiaʻiʻo, ʻaʻohe mea ʻē aʻe ma mua o ka nationalist nā keikikāne hoʻoweliweli.
Groups like the Proud Boys are only the most extreme example of the “patriotic” poseurs, parades, and pageantry in the U.S.A. of 2020. And collectively all of it, including our lost and embattled president, add up to a red-white-and-blue distraction (and what a distraction it’s been!) from an essential reality: that America is in serious trouble — and you can take that “America” to mean ordinary people working hard to make a living (or aole hana iki i kēia manawa), makemake nui e mālama i nā hale ma luna o ko lākou mau poʻo a hānai i kā lākou mau keiki.
He mea hoʻohilahila ia mai ka ʻoiaʻiʻo ʻaʻole lanakila ʻo ʻAmelika i ke kaua mai ka manawa i lele ai ʻo George McGovern i kēlā mau mikiona kaua a pau ma B-24. He mea hoʻonanea ia mai kekahi poʻe ʻAmelika maʻamau e like me George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, a ʻO Jacob Blake ʻaʻole i hoʻopunipuni wale ʻia a hoʻohana wale ʻia, akā ua pepehi ʻia, no laila ka pono o kahi neʻe Black Lives Matter e hoʻomaka me. He mea hoʻohilahila ia mai ka ʻoiaʻiʻo ʻaʻole mākou e hoʻopaʻapaʻa i nā kumukūʻai palekana aupuni nui e pehu nei i kēlā me kēia makahiki ma luna. he kālā trillion, ʻoiai ʻaʻohe mea i ke kūlana o ka mana e ʻapo.
Today’s never-ending wars and rumors of more to come remind me that George McGovern was not only against the Vietnam conflict, but the ones in Afghanistan and Iraq, too. Joe Biden, meanwhile, voted for the Iraq War, which Donald Trump also 'ōlelo no laila, e hoʻoikaika wale i ka hoʻopau ʻana i nā kaua o kēia ʻāina ma 2016, ʻoiai inā ma 2020 ʻaʻole ʻo ia i hana pēlā - ʻoiai ua hoʻokumu ʻo ia i kahi ʻoihana koa hou, Ka Puʻupuʻu. Ke manaʻo nei i ka pono e hoʻomaʻamaʻa i kāna pono ponoʻī pro-war bona fides, ua ʻōlelo ʻo Biden i kēia manawa hoala mai ʻO ka "pale" ka hoʻolimalima ʻana ma luna o ka mea a Trump i makemake ai.
Inā ʻoe e ʻoluʻolu i koʻu ʻano noʻonoʻo no kekahi manawa, makemake wau e hoʻokahe Lloyd Bentsen, ka 1988 Democratic hope peresidena i koho ʻia, i ka hoʻopaʻapaʻa ʻana me kona Repubalika e kūʻē iā Dan Quayle, hoʻokuʻu iā ia ʻo "ʻaʻohe Jack Kennedy." Ma kēlā ʻuhane like, makemake wau e ʻōlelo i kēia iā Trump lāua ʻo Biden ma hope o ka pōʻino o Covid-19 o kahi hoʻolaha: "Ua hui au iā George McGovern. ʻO George McGovern, ma kahi ʻano ʻē aʻe, ʻo ia paha koʻu hoaaloha. ʻO ʻoe, e Joe a me Donald, ʻaʻole ʻoe ʻo George McGovern.
ʻAʻole koʻikoʻi ka oihana koa ma mua o ka noho pelekikena a me ka luna nui, akā ʻo wai kou manamana lima e makemake ai e kau i ke pihi nuklea o ʻAmelika: ʻo ia ʻo Trump, nāna i ʻalo i ke kiʻi me nā kuʻekuʻe wāwae; Biden, ka mea i pale aku i ka papa hana me ka hānō; a i ʻole he alakaʻi e like me McGovern, nāna i lawelawe me ka wiwo ʻole i ke kaua, he alakaʻi i mākaukau e ʻimi i nā ala maluhia no ka mea ʻike pono ʻo ia i nā mea hoʻokahe koko o ke kaua?
A Historical Tapestry for Fourth Graders as 2020 Ends
Pehea e pili ana i ke kiʻi papa no nā papa ʻehā i kēia lā? He aha nā kiʻi ma hope o ko lākou mau poʻo e hōʻike i ka ʻōlelo hoʻohiki a me ka haunaele o ko mākou mau lā? ʻOiaʻiʻo, e hōʻike ʻia ʻo Covid-19, ma kahi mauna o nā ʻeke kino i loko o nā morgues portable. ʻOiaʻiʻo, aia kahi hae "Blue Lives Matter" ma laila e kāpae ana i kahi hae Black Lives Matter. ʻOiaʻiʻo, kahi drone e hoʻokuʻu ana i nā missiles Hellfire, i loko paha Somalia or Iemene a i ʻole kekahi ʻaoʻao mamao ʻē aʻe i ke kaua pau ʻole o ʻAmelika (ʻaʻole i) weliweli, e ʻike ʻia.
A eia kekahi mau mea ʻē aʻe: ʻoiaʻiʻo, ʻo ka hae o Kina, i kēia manawa e hōʻike ana i ka ulu ʻana o ka haunaele, ʻaʻole ka launa pū ʻana, ma waena o nā mana nui ʻelua; ʻoiaʻiʻo, he Trump hui hoʻolaha nui filled with the unmasked expressing what I like to think of as the all-too-American “ideal” of “live free and die”; surely, a vast ahi ahi e ala ana mai Kaleponi a me ka Komohana, hui pū ʻia me ka hae makani pāhili e hōʻike i kekahi makahiki hoʻopaʻa moʻolelo o ia mau ino, oi loa aku ma ke Kai Kai; ʻoiaʻiʻo, ʻo kekahi mau mea kūʻē maluhia e hoʻomāʻewaʻewa ʻia a hoʻomāʻewaʻewa ʻia paha e nā ʻelele federala ikaika a ʻike ʻole ʻia no ko lākou mālama ʻana i ke ola o George floyd a ʻO Breonna Taylor, Me kekahi po'e'ē a'e.
A ke manaʻo nei au hiki iā mākou ke hoʻohui i kekahi mea e pili ana i nā haʻuki i loko o kēlā kolamu, he kiʻi paha o nā mea pāʻani pôpeku i nā kahua pāʻani kaʻawale, e kukuli ana i hoʻokahi no ke kaulike lāhui. E nānā, hoʻohana ʻia nā haʻuki e hoʻohui iā mākou ma nā laina lāhui a me nā papa, akā i kāna peresidena pōʻino, ua hoʻohana ʻo Donald Trump, a me nā mea ʻē aʻe, i nā haʻuki wale nō. e mahele ia makou. Ua hoʻemi ʻia nā pilina lāhui paʻakikī a me nā hoʻoilina i nā slogans, Black Lives Matter versus blue lives matter, akā ʻo ka mea i pau i ka ʻeleʻele a me ka uliuli ʻo ʻAmelika. Ua paʻi mākou iā mākou iho a ʻo ia ka poʻe hoʻolaha hakakā, ʻo Donald Trump ma mua o nā mea a pau, ka mea i loaʻa ka waiwai nui. Inā makemake mākou e holomua i ka lāhui ma ʻAmelika, pono e hoʻopau ʻia kēlā ʻano hana hoʻomāinoino.
And what would be missing from the 2020 collage that was in my 1972 one? Notably, clear references to peace, ecology, and equal rights for women. Assuming that, on January 20th, Joe Biden really does take his place in the Oval Office, despite the angriest and most vengeful man in the world sitting there now, those three issues would be an ideal place for him to start in his first 100 days as president (along, of course, with creating a genuine plan to curb Covid-19): (1) seek peace in Afghanistan and elsewhere by ending America’s disastrous wars; (2) put the planet first and act to abate climate change and preserve all living things; (3) revive the Equal Rights Amendment and treat women with dignity, respect, and justice.
Hoʻokahi kiʻi hope loa mai kaʻu kolamu papa ʻehā: hōʻike ʻia kahi ʻelepani ma luna o kahi hoki palahalaha. ʻOiaʻiʻo, ua manaʻo ʻia e hopu i ka lanakila ʻana o Richard Nixon ma luna o George McGovern i ka makahiki 1972. Akā naʻe, me ka lanakila ʻana o Joe Biden i ka pule i hala, hiki anei iā mākou ke ʻōlelo me ka hilinaʻi aia ka hoki ma luna? ʻOiaʻiʻo ʻaʻole ʻo ia ka lā o McGovern, no ka mea, ua kamaʻilio mua ʻo Biden e pili ana i ka austerity ma ka home a ʻoi aku ka nui o ka hoʻolimalima koa.
ʻO ka mea kaumaha, ua lōʻihi ka manawa e hoʻihoʻi ai i ka manaʻo o ʻAmelika a kū i kahi kū no ka liʻiliʻi o ke kaua a me ke kōkua hou aku no ka poʻe nāwaliwali loa i waena o mākou, me ka honua ponoʻī. ʻO ke kaumaha no ka loaʻa ʻole o kā mākou alakaʻi e like me George McGovern i ka Hale Paʻa ke ʻano he makahiki hou weliweli.
ʻO William Astore, he lutanela kolonela i hoʻomaha (USAF) a he polopeka o ka mōʻaukala, he a ʻO TomDispatch mau. ʻO kāna blog pilikino Nā manaʻo pale.
Ua hōʻike mua ʻia kēia ʻatikala ma TomDispatch.com, he weblog o ka Nation Institute, e hāʻawi ana i kahi kahe mau o nā kumu ʻē aʻe, nā nūhou, a me nā manaʻo mai Tom Engelhardt, ka mea hoʻoponopono lōʻihi i ka paʻi ʻana, ka mea nāna i hoʻokumu i ka American Empire Project, ka mea kākau o ʻO ka hopena o ka moʻomeheu lanakila, e like me ka moʻolelo, The Last Days of Publishing. ʻO kāna puke hou loa ʻo A Nation Unmade By War (Haymarket Books).
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We look back to progressive politicians – McGovern, Robert Kennedy, Gough Whitlam in Australia – who were all destroyed one way or another and wish we had people like that since. Well, we have had, including today but they too get destroyed. eg. Jeremy Corbyn. We don’t learn anything. 50 years from now people will be writing articles like “What We Need Today is a Jeremy Corbyn”.