Episodes
Wednesday Mar 05, 2014
Leid Stories - 03/05/14
Wednesday Mar 05, 2014
Wednesday Mar 05, 2014
Why the Ukraine-Crimea Crisis Should Make Us Change Our Politics
If nothing else, the Ukraine-Crimea crisis should cause us to re-examine our basic political philosophy and orientation. Why? Because it clearly hasn’t happened at the leadership level; across the board, they’ve run out of good, innovative ideas and new ways of doing things.
Leid Stories raises a number of examples that illustrate the stagnation of progress in many spheres of American life, owing largely to an unwillingness, incapacity or downright refusal to embrace new ideas and realities. No “modern” nation, let alone a “world-leading” one, would tolerate a 2-million-plus prison population, or ninth-place standing in the world on Internet speed, or one-in-seven poverty rates, or would engage in Cold War bloviating and call it diplomacy. In its policy making the United States is its own conundrum, having a futuristic vision of itself that cannot be accomplished with vapid ideas and ways of doing things.
Leid Stories expands on this theme and asks the question: The system is impervious to change. What, then, are our political choices?