Tuesday, August 11, 2020

Marine Commandant, Major General Smedley Butler: How To Make Lasting Political Progress

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Alan: For better or worse, I am an idea guy.

The creation, analysis and discussion of ideas is what I do best.

Pondering, developing and communicating ideas is where the bulk of my energy is optimally placed.

I am, by nature, so intellectually disposed that I would be pathogenically untrue to myself if I did not act, by profession, in accordance with my intellectual and educational nature.

We all have "a calling."

My calling is that of an "investigative educator."

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How can effective educational process (without which we are irredeemably lost) subdue/control The Military-Industrial Complex?

My proposal is to persuade veterans groups (and others) to advocate - over the long haul - for a National Holiday dedicated to Marine Commandant, Major General Smedley Butler, who - at the end of his career - was the most decorated American soldier ever.

Remarkably, persistent advocacy for a "Major General Smedley Butler National Holiday" need not be "successful" for educated citizens to prevail in politics.

In fact, successful education of the citizenry may take root faster if a National Holiday is not enacted.

In effect, Smedley's view of the military - and its innately profiteering belligerence - will "win by losing." 

Such a strategy!

Just having the issue "out there" as a focal point for ongoing, heated debate is the best way to get people thinking, and as a byproduct, raising their awareness.  (Imagine a "Marine Commandant, General Smedley Butler National Holiday" billboard or mural in every American town and city. "It's easy if you try... Imagine all the people...")

Notably, informed awareness is the beginning of any-and-every lasting change.

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the wo ...

Lest we forget... 

Marxism's greatest practical achievement - The Soviet Union - went from a so-called superpower to the trash heap of history in just 70 years -- "3 score and ten" -- a single "biblical lifetime."

Gotta have deep roots to have long legs.

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