[Peace-discuss] Power intoxicates

[Jenifer Cartwright]

I appreciate yr positive attitude, Karen. Whoever said, "Change is always preceded by hope" had it right. Always easier to tear things down, but stopping there is what gets ME down. 
   
  Here's another person who seconds yr tho'ts --
   
  "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world; indeed it's the only thing that ever has."       Margaret Mead
   
  Jenifer
   
  

Karen Medina <kmedina at uiuc.edu> wrote:
  n.dahlheim wrote:
* won't change anything. 
* Human nature is weak and fallible.
* little can be done

Why do people keep saying that no one person can make a difference? 

Look what Bush has done. It is amazing the number of things he has reversed or moved along at lightning speed. 

Yes, Bush had Cheney (did I get the order wrong?), and they had a Condoleezza Rice and a Scooter Libby and a host of loyal brawn at Bush's side, but not one of them could have sold any of it to Congress or the American people without Bush.

Surely, one candidate for President or Senator could find good people to work for/with them and then they wouldn't be one person trying to change things.

Individuals alone may not make a difference, but no difference can be made without individuals.

-karen medina



---- Original message ----
>Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2007 18:26:22 +0000
>From: n.dahlheim at mchsi.com 
>Subject: [Peace-discuss] Power intoxicates 
>To: Jan & Durl Kruse 
>Cc: peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net
>
>As always, I am going to continue to assume the role of skeptic here... Sheehan running for Congress 
>won't change anything. Lord Acton's pithy dictum that absolute power tends to corrupt absolutely most 
>certainly fits here. Power will corrupt Sheehan even if she were to win. Human nature is weak and fallible. 
>Sheehan and Bush are not that different on an existential level---yes there is a social power 
>differential---but, I am gravitating more and more towards believing that little can be done about the 
>endemic Washington corruption from within Washington. 
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