Opinion

Britain and Chicago vote for self-respect

Posted July 21, 2016 12:01 am

Britain's momentous exit from the European Union, and the departure of the Lucas Museum from Chicago have more than one feature in common.

The British people grew tired of being used by absentee owners. Responsible Chicagoans said no to a self-serving, image-obsessed Hollywood celebrity who proclaimed: If I can't indulge my vanity with Chicago's incomparable lakefront vista, I'm gone. Never mind palaver about jobs and economic impetus helping the people of Chicagoland.

Passive Lady Liberty decided the trickster-supremacist oligarchies had their way with her long enough, and voted to halt the run of nihilism, contempt for the human psyche and unbridled lust for power over others.

Brexit (big picture) and Lucas (local focus) suggested Trump's call to "take back our country." No more Caspar Milquetoast. Propitious time for serious thinking abut civic awareness and duty, America's democratic values (see reverse side of World War II Victory Medal), pride of citizenship and respect for human dignity. Time to reject absentee and disconnected ownership of our government that ignores Constitutional commitments to "promote the general welfare" and respect for the balance of powers. Time to expose the emperor's new clothes in which finance finaglers parade in mockery of the American dream.

Again, and as I mentioned in a Jan. 17, 2014, letter to the Daily Herald, it is time to fix our broken culture.

Robert L. Darcy

Wheaton

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