NY Times, January, 2019: Finally, a leader is emerging from the chaos that is American politics. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

It has been quite a little while since we've any "good news" about politics and the future for America.  That has suddenly changed.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, has a dream - and it is a dream we can All share.

New York Times, January 7, 2019

The leading thinker on rational, progressive tax policy in American governance in 2019? A waitress without a formal education in governance. Finally - a rational American voice.

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The most frightening truth about 2019 America is our churning sea of political chaos.  We lack a shared vision, clouds of war, destruction and environmental disaster are looming all around us and we seem helpless, frozen in fear.

for example Mike Pence

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"The real risk of the Trump presidency is the looming horror that would be a Pence Presidency."

The United States of America at this moment is a nation in peril, and the world trembles as they watch the American dream teetering on the edge of disaster.

Without hope and a shared vision, we really are in trouble.

There is an old Irish saying however, "Tis a rare wind indeed that blows no good, for the storm that drowns the sailor also waters the crops."

Oh, we have plenty - we have food and water, but we are dying of both hunger and thirst...   We thirst for a new, compassionate, rational vision for tomorrow's America, and we hunger, indeed are starving, for voices of truth and justice and hope for tomorrow.

Ms Ocasio-Cortez' voice rings like a bell over the babble of chaos and the shouts of terrified fools.  We have real problems, and we need real solutions, new ideas, and a new path into a bright future for us all.

We need leaders who can see a future not buried in the darkness of chaos and torn apart by inevitable and looming change, but a leader who instead holds up a lamp of truth and motions to us all, black and white, rich and poor, young and old and says in a calm, clear voice...

"Here is a path!  If we go this way we all might make it out of this alive!!!"

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(closing thoughts)

This is not a "United States" story - politics in 2019 America represent a breathless moment, a looming disaster, for the entire world.

Without Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez (a real leader of vision of hope), we are facing perhaps a new world war - against the USA.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is holding a lamp of truth, a beacon of hope and change brighter than any current figure on the American political stage.  I am ready to follow that light into a new, brighter future for the world.

John Hubertz at Fort Wayne, Indiana
Carl Zehr Professor of Moral Economics and Theology
New Hope Peace Academy (worldwide)

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