re: #188 silverdolphin

As a realist, I think you may be right. Things will likely continue to be shit for a long time. But, I do like to see if there is a positive path forward, even if it is unlikely. Because it is so easy to see a negative path.

I do not expect to live to see an ME without violence. But, then, I was not sure I would see the IRA stop bombing. Stranger things have happened. And like in the US, the only path forward is to destroy the Right in Israel. If we can do it, so can Israel.

After the Civil War, we had Reconstruction (that might have actually worked if Lincoln had lived). After WW2, we had the Marshall plan. Both remade the economics of the time. I see aspects of the same in Biden’s Middle East Economic Corridor that could remake global economies from India to Europe.

To me, the future is still hopeful. So I will continue to use my confirmation bias to take little bits and pieces here, there and … hope.

One difference between Israel and the United States: We don’t have larger neighbors who invaded us and tried to destroy us in living memory. Nor are we living with much wealthier neighbors who have funded those hostile to our existence. We are the largest nation in North America and the wealthiest nation on the planet.

And Reconstruction failed because the depravity of racism was so baked into our nation that even the Republican Party abandoned its soul to keep power. And the evil of that time is making a strong resurgence in our country.