INSTEAD OF MORE POLICIES FROM GOVT FOR EDUCATING OUR CHILDREN, LET’S GET SOME HISTORIANS AND ECONOMISTS TO EDUCATE OUR LEADERS.
The American people and their leaders do not understand macroeconomics and the grip that global capitalism and currency markets hold over EVERYTHING. Also, Americans don’t understand Europeans or Russians, their values, and how our influence has harmed and diminished their cultures entrapping them to the dollar and our interference in world affairs. We are surrounded by adversaries, it’s true, but understanding other cultures is imperative from the White House down. President elect Trump must be made aware of what the Euromaidan Revolution did to Ukraine, from the point of view of Russian intellectuals, before attempting negotiations with Putin. Fast talking Trump is capable of learning. The Russian language and the Russian Church were removed from Ukraine. These grey areas are cultural and imperative to understand. The history of Nazism goes back to the early 20th c long before Hitler. Trump and Congress need to understand what Nazi nationalists always want which is to break free of empires. Why does the Bible say to respect authority and to render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s? Why does the Bible say that all authority comes from God? What good has come from rebelling from empires and kingdoms? We cite the American Revolution as an absolute good but it was a recreation of the British Empire in other names and with different laws but basically English Law. Rebellion and revolution offer promises that don’t pan out. American obsession with regime change may be over, maybe, but we still must make peace with Russia and live in peace in a global market place… If making American great again requires that we be top dog on the planet, we must nevertheless trade and make deals with our former enemies. Help North Korea and Russia enter the 21st century. Russia has many policies that we would do well to adopt having to do with agriculture.
I am proposing education for our politicians along the lines of cultural and historical “enlightenment”. Not everything can be from the American lens. That’s the rule of the Hood. Do we want crime and more senseless killing? Or peace and prosperity around the world?