Can Elizabeth Warren (Really) Change America?

Can America Finally Win its Independence From Cruelty, Greed, Selfishness, and Violence?

It’s a foregone conclusion, I think, by now, that Elizabeth Warren will be America’s next president. Or at least elected as it’s next president — while the fascists, with a little help from the judiciary and Russia, try to steal the presidency right back.

But even if she passes that hurdle, I think there’s another one. One so high that it might just leave her disillusioned and embittered, checked out…like a Barack Obama who’s busy making documentaries instead of, for example, leading rallies calling for crimes against humanity charges laid at the footsteps of the fascists. He’s totally checked out. He could care less. Why?

Liz has plans, sure. They’re good plans. Even brilliant ones. But. What does it take for America to follow the path laid out for it by a leader? There’s one quality that Americans respect above all. It’s a necessary one. Without this quality, in abundance, displayed proudly and even flamboyantly…Americans turn derisive. They mock and taunt and snipe, instead of follow behind a leader. They see people without this quality as deficient, weak, strange, immoral, lacking — as liabilities. Hence, if this quality’s not present, Americans don’t regard a leader as a “real” leader — because they don’t see a person without it as a “real” person, deserving of dignity, and so they humiliate and scorn people without it. For Americans, this one trait is the root of virtue, of character, the defining element of whether you can trust and like and relate to and respect a person…or not.

That quality is violence. I don’t mean it in a naive, simplistic way — guns!! Nope. I mean cruelty, as a way of life. Think of Romans. If a Roman was…peaceful…merciful…gentle…kind…LOL…the other Romans would regard them as deficient, wrong in the head, a liability. After all, it was Rome that killed Christ for preaching the gospel of love and peace. Romans were happier to get behind Caligula and Nero…than Christ…that pathetic weakling (luckily, history was smarter). See the point: for the Romans, violence, the harder the better, was the wellspring of virtue, and without violence, a person wasn’t capable of being respected, liked, trusted, or…