This will be brief. I will revisit these words often for refinement. I wanted to mark my 84th birthday with the solution to the problem.
Those of goodwill and good sense within the political class lack the power to marginalize the demagogues and their followers and stave off autocracy/theocracy. The union is in crisis, and measures are needed to avert doomsday. (I see the reelection of Trump as that day.) Please remain open to my solution even if you view the doomsday warning as unnecessary.
I propose the leaders of the military-industrial complex pledge to prevent autocracy/theocracy and to assume the leadership to restore democracy. They will sign the pledge document and take specific actions enumerated in the promise. They will pledge a unified commitment to restoring democratic norms. They also will sell to use their resources to effect a peaceful solution to the defined threat.
The enumerated actions will include addressing their respective constituencies on democratic principles, exerting their economic power to marginalize the attacks on democracy, and agreeing on the political leaders they support. Finally, they will promulgate a uniform code of American ethics.
Let's get started.
My Oath
ReplyDelete"I, William J. Spriggs, having been appointed an officer in the Marine Corps of the United States, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign or domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office upon which I am about to enter; So help me God."