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Revisiting the Three R'S—Reading, Writing and Revolution: The Role of Humanist Scholars and the Future of Humanity and Society

A few weeks ago I received an e-mail message suggesting that I sign a petition to impeach the Five Supreme Court justices who gave George W. Bush the election last November. Despite the righteousness of the cause, the endeavor struck me as almost quaint. After all, even before the bombings of September 11 th, the general public (at least as it is represented in the mainstream media) had all but forgotten Bush’s “legitimacy” problem. The call to war seems to have reaffirmed this legitimacy with 90% approval ratings. The clamor for learning important lessons about democracy that followed last year’s electoral melodrama had subsided. Even before the September attacks, the progressive, alternative media had settled into oppositional mode, critiquing current administration policies and cautioning Ralph Nader about the damage of another “spoiler run” for President. Now, the liberal media has fallen even further into a lock-step behind the war efforts and its “civil liberties for national security” swap meet, while progressive pundits and scholars debate possible strategies for (and even the merits of) a peace movement. But the voices of public intellectuals and activists demanding the restoration or creation of democracy in government seem relatively silent. Some of the real “civics lessons” demonstrated by the 2000 contest should be re-visited, though. Progressive scholars and public Intellectuals should stress the contradictions of U.S. Democracy that were exposed by the Presidential fiasco: