If you believe that global warming threatens all life on earth and the planet on which we live, and is primarily the product of western industrialization of which the U.S. is the leading cause. Then every politician and business leader who stands in the way of change is the enemy of the planet and all living things!

    If you believe that war is the product of human greed and that the strong exploit the weak so they can strip other nations of there natural recourses. And that by doing so they destroy indigenous cultures and there environment, then you must believe the need for change!

    If you believe that U.S. consumes the majority of the worlds limited resources and leaves the bulk of the world struggling to survive on the scraps, while Americans become increasingly fat and jaded, then you must believe the need for change!

    If you believe that racism, sexism, homophobia, patriarchal oppression and violence is the product of a deeply warped culture attempting to impose its disease on other people. Then you must be for change!

      Questioning the truthfullness of such statements and whether they are they unique to western or U.S. culture needs to be answered.  Is this the nature of its people, and who are its people? Since African Americans exist in this culture as victims of slavery and racism then its clear we are not speaking about them. Woman also are the victims of a patriarchal culture. Latino's flee there own countries as the result of American hegemony and exploitation coming into this country as refugees. who create a supply of cheap labor to increase the wealth of an American plutocracy.  Leaving only white men.

      Quoting feminist writer Susan Sontag; The white race is the cancer of human history! Similar statements about the founding fathers from Jesse Jackson, the American founders were nothing but a bunch of white men! From Cynthia McKinney congressional representative from Georgia we get; what did the Bush administration know about 9/11 and why did they not warn the innocent people that were murdered! All of these people are part of more than a fringe culture but a part of mainstream culture that clearly thinks that America from its founding to its present is a murderous, genocidal thug formed by the worst instincts of human nature. If this is true you must believe the need for change!

     Michele Obama the wife of Barak Obama while speaking at a fund raiser for her husband said, for the 1^st time in my life I am really proud of my country, in reference to her husbands campaign. When we look at political ideology that informs the far left we begin to understand her meaning more clearly. It isn’t that most liberals adhere to such extremes but these ideas are clearly threaded thru the ideology that informs much liberal thought. For Jesse Jackson equality for blacks doesn’t really begin until the civil rights act of 1965. From slavery which legally began in 1654 and ended with the passage of the 13^th amendment to the constitution in 1865,thru 100 years of Jim Crow, constitutes more than 300 years of legal discrimination. Starting with Martin Luther King’s Alabama bus boycott in 1955 till the voting rights act of 1965, a span of 10 short years culminates with the end of 300 years of legal discrimination. Ten years vs. 300 years, collective political action with government mandated solutions vs. capitalism. According to this veiw there can be only one answer. Markets driven by personal greed cannot be trusted and must be restrained . The vision that government in accord with enlightened private and public leadership as the solution is validated.

      Both subtilities of meaning and context are important. When we attempt to judge history it is necessary to have a objective standard and a willingness to recognize our own potential for bias. Hopefully we move beyond what we believe no matter the depth of our convictions. To a cold search for the truth. The facts as they can best be understood, without prejudice since the nature of prejudice is the question before us.