"It seems to me that to organize on the basis of feeding people or righting social injustice and all that is very valuable. But to rally people around the idea of modernism, modernity, or something is simply silly. I mean, I don't know what kind of a cause that is, to be up to date. I think it ultimately leads to fashion and snobbery and I'm against it."
Jack Levine: January 3, 1915 – November 8, 2010
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If Republicans wanted to do something other than evil, they should impeach Trump and convict him in a Senate trial and let Pence know that if pardons him, he'll be next.
It won't happen but if there is one thing this country really needs it is for a corrupt president to be impeached, convicted and sentenced for corruption in office and other crimes. But I'll get back on Profiles in Courage again. I have got to say that the older I get and the more I read and think about it the less respect I have for John Kennedy and the more I have for the deeply flawed and hardly untroubling Lyndon Johnson. Though I doubt I'd have much liked either, I think Johnson was the greater president.
Akin to Cohen's observation that there are cracks in everything, it's how the light gets in. Flawed humans tend to be better humans. Johnson knew poverty, he knew racism, and he knew power. He used power to enrich himself (he owned a TV station in Austin, and got an FCC rule that no other TV station in Austin could broadcast on VHF. In the days before cable, that mattered. The rule was still in effect when I moved there in '78. He knew how to protect his assets, and wasn't afraid to do it.). But he also knew how to use power to protect the powerless.
Had it not been for Vietnam, he might have had two terms, and changed the direction of history as much as FDR did.
Reminds me of Romans 11:32 and what it says about all of us being disobedient so God can forgive us.
I have a feeling that JFK had a bit of Trumpian insouciance about him and a sense of being too secure in his own virtue and entitlement. I don't get that from LBJ, even as he was an old sinner and a ruthless politician. His domestic program in its aspirations made JFK look like a disinterested Piker.
To a good extent, I'm as disillusioned with Robert Kennedy, too. If they hadn't been assassinated and lived to be old men, I doubt their renown would be what it is now.
According to a panelist on CNN last night, McConnell is telling GOP donors upset by Trump that Trump may not serve out his first term.
ReplyDeleteWhich is even more severe a judgment than declaring Obama would be a one-term President if the GOP could help it.
May you live in interesting times.
If Republicans wanted to do something other than evil, they should impeach Trump and convict him in a Senate trial and let Pence know that if pardons him, he'll be next.
DeleteIt won't happen but if there is one thing this country really needs it is for a corrupt president to be impeached, convicted and sentenced for corruption in office and other crimes. But I'll get back on Profiles in Courage again. I have got to say that the older I get and the more I read and think about it the less respect I have for John Kennedy and the more I have for the deeply flawed and hardly untroubling Lyndon Johnson. Though I doubt I'd have much liked either, I think Johnson was the greater president.
Akin to Cohen's observation that there are cracks in everything, it's how the light gets in. Flawed humans tend to be better humans. Johnson knew poverty, he knew racism, and he knew power. He used power to enrich himself (he owned a TV station in Austin, and got an FCC rule that no other TV station in Austin could broadcast on VHF. In the days before cable, that mattered. The rule was still in effect when I moved there in '78. He knew how to protect his assets, and wasn't afraid to do it.). But he also knew how to use power to protect the powerless.
DeleteHad it not been for Vietnam, he might have had two terms, and changed the direction of history as much as FDR did.
Reminds me of Romans 11:32 and what it says about all of us being disobedient so God can forgive us.
DeleteI have a feeling that JFK had a bit of Trumpian insouciance about him and a sense of being too secure in his own virtue and entitlement. I don't get that from LBJ, even as he was an old sinner and a ruthless politician. His domestic program in its aspirations made JFK look like a disinterested Piker.
To a good extent, I'm as disillusioned with Robert Kennedy, too. If they hadn't been assassinated and lived to be old men, I doubt their renown would be what it is now.