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Sezvandairarama mukati mezvinotyisa zvedanidziro yesarudzo ichangopfuura, ndaiwanzozviona ndichirota imwe nyika yeAmerica zvachose. Chimwe chinhu kunze kweuyu.
Nemweya iwoyo, ndakazviwanawo ndatarisa mufananidzo wekirasi yangu yegiredhi rechina, vintage 1972. Yakanamirwa kumadziro kuseri kwemisoro yedu yaive koraji, tapestry yemhando yandaigona kunyatsojekesa. Zvakamutsa vimbiso uye mhirizhonga yegore rine mhirizhonga kare kare. Vimbiso iyi yaive muchikamu chaiti "rugare" uye chaisanganisira mureza wegirinhi wezve ecology, mutambi webaseball mutema (mutambi wetsiva weBrooklyn Dodgers, Jackie Robinson, akanga afa gore iroro), uye chibhakera chakapfumbata mukati mechiratidzo chemukadzi ( kumirira hukadzi hutsva hwenguva iyoyo uye kusundidzira kwekodzero dzakaenzana dzevakadzi).
Kumiririra mhirizhonga yenguva iyoyo yaive mifananidzo yeB-52s vachidonhedza mabhomba muVietnam (hondo yaive ichiri kuenderera mberi) uye kuratidzira kwagavhuna weAlabama ane rusarura uye mumiriri wepurezidhendi George Wallace (zvichida nekuti akange apfurwa nekukuvadzwa mune imwe nzvimbo. kuedza kuuraya kuti May). Roketi rakanyorwa kuti "USA" rakandiyeuchidza kuti nyika ino yakanga ichiri kuunza kukunda kweApollo mishoni kumwedzi.
Tasvika kure sei munguva isati yakwana hafu yezana ramakore! Muna 2020, "runyararo" harisi kana izwi muAmerican zvematongerwo enyika duramazwi; kunyangwe Greta Thunberg, iri kukura-kuchinja kwemamiriro ekunze, uye Joe Biden's mabhiriyoni maviri emadhora hurongwa hwemamiriro ekunze, ecology yaive zvikuru pfungwa yekune dzimwe nyika musarudzo ichangopfuura sezvo mapato maviri ezvematongerwo enyika akambundirana nemafuta emafuta (kunyangwe kumbundira kwaBiden kwaive shoma tight); Major League baseball yakatambura chaizvo kuderera muvatambi veAfrica-America mumakore achangopfuura; uye kuda kuenzana kwevakadzi kunoramba kuri pachena zvisina kuzadziswa.
Kubhomba kunoenderera, hongu, kunyangwe iwo mabhomba uye makombora ave kunanga zvakanyanya kune akasiyana siyana echiIslamist epanduki kwete emacommunist, uye zvinowanzoitwa drones, kwete B-52s, kunyange zvazvo ndege idzodzo dzinoremekedzwa dzichiri kushandiswa kutya Moscow neBeijing nekuuraya kwenyukireya. George Wallace, hongu, akatsiviwa naDonald Trump, anosarura akadzoka Mutungamiriri Richard Nixon's nzira yekumaodzanyemba yegiredhi rangu rechikoro mukukunda kwenyika muna 2016 uye uyo, semutungamiri, anogara akagutsurira musoro yevachena vepamusoro-soro.
Budiriro, ndiani? Chokwadi, iyo kirasi pikicha yangu yakatoratidza mureza weChina, chiyeuchidzo chekuti Nixon akange atyora ivhu idzva gore iroro nekuenda kuBeijing kunosangana nemutungamiri weChinese weCommunist Mao Zedong uye nekuderedza kusawirirana kweCold War yenguva. Mazuva ano, vanhu vekuAmerica vanongonzwa kuti China inotyisa yemauto nehupfumi; kuti Joe Biden nemamwe maDemocrats vanonzi vari kure zvakare China-inoshamwaridzana (havasi); uye kuti Covid-19 (aka "Wuhan Flu" kana "Kung Flu") aive - zvirinani kuna Donald Trump nevateveri vake - denda rakatumirwa nemaChinese kuzotiuraya.
Chimwe chiratidzo kubva pamatepi iwayo, chidimbu che chess, chakandiyeuchidza kuti muna 1972 takaona musangano wakakurumbira weCold War pakati pevadiki, vakanaka, kana mercurial Bobby Fischer neSoviet chess shasha Boris Spassky mumutambo wakamutsa hysteria uye paranoia ye Cold War. Ndichifemerwa naFischer, ndakatanga kutamba mutambo uyu pachangu ndikava nhengo inotakura makadhi yeUS Chess Federation kudzamara ndaona kuti tarenda rangu rakanga risingakwanisi.
Gore ra1972 rakapera nekukunda kwakaita Republican Richard Nixon kukunda Democratic Senator George McGovern, uyo aingotakura nyika yangu yokumusha yeMassachusetts. Pashure pokukunda kwaNixon zvine mutsindo, ndinoyeuka zvinamirwa zvakati: โMusandipomera mhosva nokuda kwaNixon, ndinobva kuMassachusetts.โ
Makore gumi nemasere gare gare, muna 1990, ndaizosangana kwenguva pfupi neaichimbova seneta. Akanga ari kumusangano wokusiyirana wezvakaitika kare weHondo yeVietnam paUS Air Force Academy uye, sokaputeni wechidiki weAir Force, ndakamudzingirira bhuku muraibhurari yeAcademy. Handifunge kuti ndaiziva panguva iyoyo nezveMcGovern's stellar fight rekodhi muHondo Yenyika II. Mutyairi wendege ane unyanzvi, akanga abhururuka 35 mauto ehondo muB-24 bhomba, achikunda Distinguished Flying Cross nokuti, pane imwe nguva, akabudirira kumhara ndege yakakuvadzwa zvikuru nemoto wemuvengi uye kuponesa vashandi vake. Nixon, uyo akanga ashanda muUto reNavy munguva yehondo iyoyo, haana kumboona kurwa. Asi akaona nguva yakawanda ari patafura yepoker, achihwina mari yakarongeka, iyo yaaizopinda munhimbe yake yokutanga yezvematongerwe enyika.
Kufanana nevazhinji vakarwa hondo ve "chizvarwa chikuru," McGovern haana kumbozvirova dundundu nezvemabasa ake ehondo. Nokufamba kwamakore, zvisinei, iyeye ane njere, anokudzwa, ane ushingi patriot weAmerica akave akabatanidzwa zvakasimba zvikuru rugare, rudo, nokunzwisisa. Mudziviriri akasimba wekodzero dzevanhu, mutendi muhurumende inofambira mberi, mupikisi akazvipira kuHondo yeVietnam, aizoona asvibiswa nemaRepublicans seasina kusimba, anenge mbwende, panyaya dzemauto uye anopokana ne-capitalist (yakaenzana nhasi yedemokrasi- socialist Bernie Sanders).
Sezviri pachena, nyika ino haigone panguva iyoyo uye haisati yakwanisa kugamuchira chero mumiriri webato guru asingatendi mukugadzwa kwemauto makuru uye hurumende inoshandira bhizinesi neindasitiri kutanga uye zvakanyanya kana zvisizvo sarudzo yedu muna 2020 ingadai isina. yanga iri Trump-Pence inopesana neBiden-Harris.
Channeling Lloyd Bentsen
Pandakatanga kunyora chidimbu ichi mukupera kwaGumiguru, ndanga ndisati ndaziva kuti Joe Biden aizokunda sarudzo dzakanyanya kunetsa muhupenyu hwedu. Chandaiziva ndechekuti nyika yakambogadzira (ichibva yaramba) vaifunga nyika saGeorge McGovern vaivemo. kuderera kwakakomba. Vazhinji vekuAmerica vanoda chaizvo shanduko, saka vanovhota vanotiudza, kunyangwe isu tichizviti maRepublicans kana maDemocrats, maConservatives, liberals, kana socialist. Mamiriro ese ari maviri esarudzo, zvisinei, akativimbisa zvishoma asi iwo ega mavhezheni emamiriro ezvinhu, zvisinei aDonald Trump angave akashamisa.
Muchokwadi, VaTrump havana kana kumbonetseka kuunza chirongwa chechero chinhu, kusanganisira kuunza denda pasi pesimba. Achangobva kuvimbisa mamwe makore mana eKuchengeta America Trumpish Zvakare neimwezve mari yekuwana mutero yakakandwa mukati. VaBiden vakamhanya mukumutsiridza nhaka yaBarack Obama vaine โtariro neshandukoโ pfungwa dzakasiiwa kunze. Takatarisana nesarudzo yakadaro munyika iri kuramba ichishupika, paine spiking Covid-19 kesi muhurumende mushure mehurumende uye zvipatara zvichiwedzera kuremerwa, vazhinji vedu takatsvaga rubatsiro Opioids or kutenga pfuti, tsika dzakaipa dzakadai sezvokudya zvine mafuta uye kusava nekurovedza muviri, uye kushaya hanya maererano nematanho akajeka ekudzivirira denda.
Kubva pahutungamiriri hwaRichard Nixon naRonald Reagan, uye kunyanya kubva Gunyana 11, 2001, zvinoshamisa izvo vanhu vekuAmerica vave kugamuchira semazuva ese. Kanganwa nezverugare, rudo, uye kunzwisisa. Zvatiri kuona zvino mumigwagwa yeAmerica hazvisi varatidziri vehondo kana kurova mapurisa, asi Robocops vakapakata mazino nezvombo zvechiuto zvinoita zvisingadzivirirwe mabasa echisimba. "Mauto" anonyanyisa seVakomana Vanodada vanopembererwa (nevamwe) se "vanoda nyika." Ludicrous QAnon kurangana dzidziso dziri kutorwa zvakanyanya nevamiriri vezvematongerwo enyika vari kudivi reRepublican remugwagwa vachimirira kuvatsigira.
Kunyangwe vanhu vatanhatu vafa kubva padenda rinotyisa vakajairwa sezvo Mutungamiri Trump vakaparadza nyika, achizviombera kune mhomho isina masiki pa super-spreader rally kuchengetedza kufa kweCovid-19 pasi pehuwandu hwengano hwemamiriyoni maviri nemazana maviri. Zvichakadaro, isu tose hatina kuwana chekupemberera mune izvo - muVietnam mazwi - zvinogona kufungidzirwa sechiverengero chemuviri mutsva, panguva ino imo munyika yekumusha.
Uye tichitaura nezvezvingangoitika zvemuviri weramangwana, funga zvakare iyo Proud Vakomana uyo mutungamiri wedu mugakava rekutanga remutungamiri wenyika Abvunzwa "kumira kumashure uye kumira." Sezviri pachena kwete varwi, vangarondedzerwa zviri nani segenโa. Vhara maziso ufunge kuti vakomana vese Vanodada vaive vatema. Vaizonzi chii zvino nevari kurudyi? Kutyisidzira, kutaura zvishoma, uye pamwe zvakanyanya kuipa.
Mauto chaiwo angave ari pasi pehurumende yemuno, yenyika, kana yemubatanidzwa ine nhevedzano yekuraira uye bumbiro remitemo, kwete boka revarume vakazviparadzanisa vanotamba pazvipfeko zvehondo uye kuparadza kurwa. Zvakadaro vanhu vazhinji vekuAmerica vanovaona nepameso echiuto, vachiombera "vakomana" avo pavanenge vachivheyesa mireza yemapurisa eblue uye vachidaidzira kuti "hupenyu hwese hune basa." Chero mireza yavanogona kuzviputira mairi, ivo, muchokwadi, hapana chinopfuura nyika vanodheerera vakomana.
Mapoka akaita seVakomana Vanodada anongova muenzaniso wakanyanyisa we "patriotic" poseurs, maparade, uye mapeji muU.SA we2020. Uye pamwe chete zvese, kusanganisira mutungamiri wedu akarasika uye akapokana, anowedzera kusvika kune tsvuku-chena-uye. -kuvhiringidza kwebhuruu (uye kwave kukanganisa kwakadini!) kubva pachokwadi chakakosha: kuti America iri mudambudziko rakakura - uye iwe unogona kutora iyo "America" โโkureva vanhuwo zvavo vanoshanda nesimba kuti vararame (kana kusashanda zvachose izvozvi), vachishuvira kuchengetedza matenga pamusoro pemisoro yavo uye kudyisa vana vavo.
Izvo zvinokanganisa zvakare kubva kuchokwadi chekuti America haina kuhwina hondo kubva panguva iyo George McGovern akabhururuka ese aya mamishini ehondo muB-24. Icho chinovhiringidza kubva kune vamwewo vanhu vekuAmerica vakaita saGeorge Floyd, Breonna Taylor, uye Jacob Blake kusangoshandiswa uye kushandiswa, asi kupondwa, nekudaro kudiwa kweBlack Lives Matter movement kutanga. Icho chinovhiringidza kubva pachokwadi chekuti hatitombopokana mabhajeti ekuchengetedza nyika ayo zvino anowedzera gore negore pamusoro. matiririyoni emadhora, nepo pasina ari pachinzvimbo chesimba anobwaira.
Hondo dzanhasi dzisingapere uye nerunyerekupe rwezvimwe zvinouya zvinondiyeuchidza kuti George McGovern aisangopesana nehondo yeVietnam chete, asi idzo dziri muAfghanistan neIraq zvakare. Joe Biden, zvakadaro, akavhotera Hondo yeIraq, iyo Donald Trump zvakare Akataura vachifarira, saka, kungokurudzira kupedza hondo dzenyika ino muna 2016, kunyangwe ne2020 akange asina kudaro - kunyangwe akange atanga basa idzva rechiuto, Space Force. Achinzwa kukosha kwekurodza yake ega pro-war bona fides, Biden nguva pfupi yadarika akati aizodaro simudza "kuzvidzivirira" kushandisa kudarika uye kupfuura izvo zvaidiwa naTrump.
Kana iwe ukafarira fungidziro yangu kwechinguvana, ndinoda kugera Lloyd Bentsen, 1988 Democratic mutevedzeri wemutungamiri wenyika uyo, mugakava neRepublican yake yakatarisana naDan Quayle, akamudzinga achiti "hapana Jack Kennedy." Nemweya mumwe chete iwoyo, ndinoda kutaura izvi kuna VaTrump naBiden mushure mehusiku hweCovid-19 hwemushandirapamwe: "Ndakasangana naGeorge McGovern. George McGovern, mune imwe chokwadi chakasiyana, angadai ari shamwari yangu. Iwe, Joe naDonald, hamusi George McGovern. "
Usati watanga basa rechiuto hazvikoshi kuti uve mutungamiri uye mutungamiriri-mukuru, asi kuti ndeupi munwe waungada kuva nawo pabhatani renyukireya reAmerica: iro raTrump, uyo akanzvenga gwaro nechitsitsinho; Biden, uyo akanzvenga gwaro ne asthma; kana kuti mutungamiriri akaita saMcGovern, akashanda nesimba muhondo, mutungamiriri aida kutsvaka nzira dzine rugare nokuti ainyatsoziva vanhu vehondo vakapararira neropa?
Iyo Historical Tapestry yeVana Giredhi se2020 Inopera
Zvakadini nepikicha yekirasi yevana vegiredhi rechina nhasi? Ndeupi collage yemifananidzo ingave kuseri kwemisoro yavo kumiririra chivimbiso uye mhirizhonga yemazuva edu? Chokwadi, Covid-19 yaizomiririrwa, pamwe negomo remabhegi emuviri mumamochari anotakurika. Chokwadi, mureza we "Blue Lives Matter" uchange uripo uchidzima mureza weBlack Lives Matter. Chokwadi, drone inovhura mabhomba eHellfire, pamwe mukati Somaria or Yemeni kana imwe nzvimbo iri kure muhondo yeAmerica isingaperi ye (kwete pa) kutya, yaizoita chitarisiko.
Uye hezvino zvimwe: chokwadi, mureza weChina, panguva ino uchimiririra kusawirirana kuri kukura, kwete kuwirirana, pakati pemasimba maviri makuru; zvirokwazvo, Trump super-spreader rally yakazadzwa neyakafumurwa ichitaura zvandinoda kufunga nezvake-zvese-America "yakanaka" ye "kurarama wakasununguka uye kufa"; zvirokwazvo, yakakura firenado kusimuka kubva kuCalifornia uye Madokero, yakabatanidzwa zvichida nemureza wechamupupuri kumirira mumwe rekodhi-kutyora gore yemadutu akadaro, kunyanya paGulf Coast; Chokwadi, vamwe varatidziri vane runyararo vari kurwiswa kana kurohwa kana kurohwa nevamiriri vemubatanidzwa vane zvombo uye vasingazivikanwe nekuti vane hanya nehupenyu George floyd uye Breonna Taylor, Pakati pevamwe.
Uye ndinofunga kuti tinogona kuwedzera chimwe chinhu nezvemitambo mune iyo collage, pamwe mufananidzo wevatambi venhabvu munhandare dzisina chinhu, vakapfugama semumwe wekuenzana kwemarudzi. Tarisai, mitambo yaimbotibatanidza pakati pemadzinza nemakirasi, asi muhutongi hwake hwenhamo, Donald Trump, pakati pevamwe, akashandisa mitambo chete. tigovane. Hukama hwakaoma hwemadzinza nenhaka dzakaderedzwa kuita masirogani, Black Lives Matter kupesana nehupenyu hwebhuruu, asi izvo zvakazoguma zvave dema nebhuruu iAmerica. Isu takazvirova pachedu uye ndivo vanosimudzira kurwa, Donald Trump pamusoro pezvose, vakabatsira zvakanyanya. Kana tichida kufambira mberi chero rudzi muAmerica, irworwo rwekuzviparira bludgeoning kunofanira kupera.
Uye chii chingave chisipo kubva ku2020 collage yaive mune yangu 1972 imwe? Zvinonzwisisika, zvirevo zvakajeka zverunyararo, ecology, uye kodzero dzakaenzana dzevakadzi. Tichifunga kuti, muna Ndira 20, Joe Biden anonyatso tora nzvimbo yake muOval Office, kunyangwe murume ane hasha uye anotsiva zvakanyanya munyika agere ipapo, izvo zvitatu zvingave nzvimbo yakanaka yekuti atange mumazuva ake zana ekutanga. semutungamiri (pamwe chete, pamwe chete, nekugadzira hurongwa hwechokwadi hwekumisa Covid-100): (19) tsvaga rugare muAfghanistan nekumwewo nekupedza hondo dzakashata dzeAmerica; (1) kuisa pasi pekutanga uye kuita kuti mamiriro okunze aite uye achengetedze zvinhu zvipenyu zvose; (2) kumutsidzira Equal Rights Amendment uye kubata vakadzi nechiremera, ruremekedzo, uye kururamisira.
Mumwe mufananidzo wekupedzisira kubva mugiredhi rechina collage yangu: nzou inoratidzwa pamusoro pembongoro yakati sandara. Zvairehwa, hongu, kutora kukunda kwaRichard Nixon kunotyisa pamusoro peGeorge McGovern muna 1972. Asi, kunyange nekukunda kwaJoe Biden svondo rapfuura, tinogona here kutaura nechivimbo kuti dhongi ikozvino riri pamusoro? Zvirokwazvo kwete iro rezuva raMcGovern, zvakapihwa kuti Biden anga atove kutaura nezve kuomesera kumba uye nekunyanya kushandisa mari muchiuto.
Zvinosuruvarisa, yave nguva yadarika yekudzoreredza mafungiro eAmerica uye kumiririra hondo shoma uye nerubatsiro rwakawanda kune vanotambura zvakanyanya pakati pedu, kusanganisira iyo nyika pachayo. Zvinosuwisa sei kuti hatina mutungamiri akaita saGeorge McGovern muWhite House segore idzva rinotyisa.
William Astore, lieutenant colonel akarega basa (USAF) uye purofesa wenhoroondo, TomDispatch dzose. Yake yega blog ndeye Bracing Views.
Chinyorwa ichi chakatanga kuoneka paTomDispatch.com, weblog yeNational Institute, iyo inopa kuyerera kwakadzikama kwemamwe masosi, nhau, uye maonero kubva kuna Tom Engelhardt, mupepeti wenguva refu mukutsikisa, co-muvambi weAmerican Empire Project, munyori we Kupera Kwekukunda Tsika, seyenoveli, Mazuva Ekupedzisira Ekudhinda. Bhuku rake razvino ndereRudzi Rusina Kugadzirwa Nehondo (Haymarket Books).
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Tinotarisa kumashure kune vezvematongerwo enyika vanofambira mberi - McGovern, Robert Kennedy, Gough Whitlam muAustralia - avo vese vakaparadzwa neimwe nzira uye tinoshuva kuti dai takanga tine vanhu vakadaro kubva ipapo. Zvakanaka, takava nazvo, kusanganisira nhasi asi ivowo vanoparadzwa. eg. Jeremy Corbyn. Hapana chatinodzidza. Makore makumi mashanu kubva zvino vanhu vachange vachinyora zvinyorwa zvakaita sekuti โZvatinoda Nhasi ndiJeremy Corbynโ.