PoliticalChic
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We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
In Flanders Fields - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
it's got a good beat... can you dance to it?
but PC, you're living in flanders field?
you're in poverty?
you're dead?
stop it... it's nonsense.
1. You seem not to be familiar with what is a well-known poem, in both literature, and political discourse. If that is the case, I would be surprised.
2. but PC, you're living in flanders field?
you're in poverty?
you're dead?
My friend, either youve completely missed the point, or Ive given too much credit in addressing too wide a political swath.
It is not myself that is dead .but the glorious values of America, killed by the warm, smothering embrace that Tocqueville spoke of:
He described an immense, tutelary power, which takes sole charge of assuring their enjoyment and of watching over their fate. As he predicted, this power is absolute, attentive to detail, regular, provident, and gentle, and it works willingly for their happiness, but it wishes to be the only agent and the sole arbiter of that happiness. It provides for their security, foresees and supplies their needs, guides them in their principal affairs, directs their industry, regulates their testaments, divides their inheritances. It is entirely proper to ask, as he asked, whether it can relieve them entirely of the trouble of thinking and of the effort associated with living.
2. And, one more perception I glean from your post: you seem to minimize the change in our nation signified by this election. That must be why you find the dirge-like element of the poem hyperbolic. I dont.
The demise of our history, of the values and attitudes that America once represented, needs to be spoken of with the seriousness of death.