Rochester, N.Y.—Hey! Sterling here at my favorite coffee stop-- Equal Grounds on South Avenue. All this ridiculous GOP presidential crap has got me thinking. Are we still a country of big thinkers?
I am real worried that our inability to match the achievements of the 1960s space program might be symptomatic of a general failure of our society to get big things done. My parents and grandparents witnessed the creation of the airplane, the automobile, nuclear energy and the computer to name only a few.
Scientists and engineers who came of age during the first half of the 20th century could look forward to building things that would solve age-old problems, transform the landscape, build the economy, and provide jobs for the burgeoning middle class that was the basis for our stable democracy.
There was a time when Republicans were not all that bad. After all, they used to be the party of Lincoln. Republicans historically were the progressive visionaries! Republicans gave us the transcontinental railroad, the interstate highway system, the purchase of Alaska, and the Panama Canal.
Today, they don't even want to repair the very infrastructure they helped create. They have no ideas. They are just puppets on a string orchestrated by the corporate elite. They even took an oath to a tax zealot and have lost any sense of moral obligation to the majority of Americans. What a shame.
And the same is true here in Rochester, New York. It was Republicans like Gordon Howe and Lucien Morin that gave us our County water system, county parks system, county sewer system. None of that would even happen today! Most of our local GOP delegations are small minded divisive pawns—incapable of creative or independent thinking.
The question remains, are we still capable of doing big things?
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