You may remember Andrei Sakaroff; he was a nuclear physicist who had been imprisoned during the years of the Soviet Gulag and was released sometime during the 80's prior to the collapse of the USSR. He was on the cover of Time Magazine and I happened to read the interview done by one of Time's reporters. Sakaroff was answering a question about ideology when he commented on his excitement upon discovering the political experiment known as democracy while in high school.
The then young and idealistic student was brimming over with hope and optimism about the democratic government of the United States. Sakaroff says that his father listened while his son explained democracy as it was applied in the US and replied simply, "All governments will try to control you, no matter what they call themselves."
Almost 3 weeks after seeing 2016, Obama's America, I have finally decided what I think of the movie. Dinesh D'Souza produced as objective a documentary of Obama and his ideology as could be done by anyone, it seems to me. D'Souza does not attempt to hide his bias for the free market, capitalistic economy that the US is known for and produces fairly detailed evidence for his belief that Obama's agenda is to rectify some of the inequalities created by the western countries' exploitation of both the natural resources and labor found in the third and fourth world countries. But whether Obama's agenda is fundamentally global and inimical to the US can, in the end, be known only by him; no amount of research can reveal the contents of the human heart.
But I do find myself sympathetic with Obama's global view (if, in fact, that is his view) simply because of what we know about the living conditions of most people on this planet. And how wealthy are even the poorest Americans when compared to that. And because we know what has been - and is being done to land, to peoples and to nations in the name of the almighty dollar.
Perhaps because I am in business, however, and know first hand, the struggle, energy and the risk-both of capital and of person- which a successful business demands, I find myself in the corner of capitalism with all of its flaws and of democracy with all of its foibles for the simple reason that they are better than the alternatives available to us.
Lin Wilder, DrPH is a former Hospital Director. She is a writer, on-line marketer and Partner in LLeads and Fast MLM Leads; business to business leads companies.
Her web site is http://www.linwilder.com/. Lin suggests that you check out one of her latest books at Amazon, A Search for the Sacred. http://www.amazon.com/A-Search-Sacred-ebook/dp/B007K9813M
Contact Dr. Lin at lin@linwilder.com
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