Warren Kinston on Democracy
You can’t see it until you see it. And once you see it, you can’t not see it!
Last fall, Dr. Warren Kinston wrote a note on Democracy at the request of some of the dissident leaders in Thailand, where he has a home and spends about a quarter of his year. This is a rough draft, but he has allowed me to post it here for our benefit: Democracy and its Difficulties by Warren Kinston (draft)
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January 20, 2009 No Comments
Welcome, Mr. President
Today Mr. Obama was sworn in as the President of the United States of America. It’s a rough time by anyone’s measure. Tt’s going to be an even harder job than it is usually (and it’s usually a tough roe to hoe). It’s a historic point in American history that Robert Kennedy got right on: forty years on and here we are.
There are a lot of people who have always felt disenfranchised and many surviving who really were, who feel a lot of pride today.
May God grant you wisdom, Mr. President.
January 20, 2009 No Comments
