Washington D.C. Memorials

The memorials in Washington D.C. are a great reminder of the amazing intelligence and courage that graced our country’s leaders in times past.  Walking them leaves me with a bittersweet feeling - pride in how great our country is, and bitterness at my belief that it is now being run by "leaders" and "judges" who have been bought and paid for as part of the plutocracy, concerned only with preserving the debt-slavery credit economy.

Even with the temperatures hovering near 100º F, we trekked from the Washington Monument to the World War I and World War II memorials, then to the Lincoln Memorial and the sight of Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech, by the Korean War Memorial, and then around to the Mason Memorial and finally to the most important one of all for me personally, the Jefferson Memorial.  All of these are must-see sights, and all will stir deep emotion if you stop to read the inscriptions and think about what these men accomplished.  We did pass through a memorial to the president that gave us government-sponsored mortgages and Social Security, and it was quite beautiful especially on a hot day…but I choose not to mention him in the company of the great leaders above.

Here's a good post from Volatility on the topic of where democracy may be headed.