Finally, among the indecent and unthinking squabbles and name-callings of Trump and Clinton in the presidential election campaign, pumped up for us daily on the media, finally, finally a person of international note said on the media what the election is about, an idea. All that Americans have to do to study the idea is read the Constitution or else at least look at what it says on every bill of their money: The United States of America. The Irish rock star Bono today in an interview on CBS morning news said that “America is like the best idea the world ever came up with”. He explained that his country, Ireland, or Great Britain, are only countries but “America is not just a country...America is an idea and that idea is bound up in equality and justice for all”. Norah O’Donnell, one of the CBS reporters, was so inspired by Bono’s interview that she repeated Bono’s thought “that America is an idea, it’s more than a country”. Finally it is out in public what we have been saying over and over. America is not a nation. It is a union of states that embodies “the best idea the world ever came up with”. The presidential election is about the life or death of the idea that is America. Should the idea behind our union of states that has been resulting in the admission of new states for almost two centuries die? Should the financial and military efforts that our government makes daily to unify the world for democracy and peace and prosperity die? Trump and his supporters want the idea of America that is the motor for good worldwide to die. Clinton knows because of her wide experience not only that it is dangerous to try to stop the unraveling of the idea of America worldwide, but also that it would be a disaster for us Americans as well as the world. The Irishman Bono sang today another beautiful song for the world. If Americans vote for Trump and kill “the best idea the world ever came up with” then the punishment for their political murder will be the end of all music in their souls.
Daniel McNeill
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A powerful and very dramatic exploration of love and relations between
a 70-year-old man and four women, two sisters 18 and 19, their mother
46, and a lesbian friend 22. It is full of well-written dialogues between the five
In various situations including sexual relations. The drama moves fast right
from the start and it is impossible not to read it as quickly as possible (it
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and explosive. A complex drama that moves with its own momentum towards
one liberating ending to all its beginnings.
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