On the White House site and Facebook I submitted the following reactions to the State of the Union Address:

China Altman The lack of emphasis on climate change and the welfare of the planet itself were glaring omissions. Re-examine traditional triumphalism -- it's a confabulation made up of denial of reality and blindness to new and necessary visions. Not just as Americans but as humans we must live within the whole of humanity as guardians caring for the earth. We live WITHIN not above or outside the web of life. 

 

As president it would be wise for you to meditate upon this. It's difficult but citizens are more weary than you realize of the same old cliches. We need truly new visions, and recognition of the greatest reality: what to do about mankind's destruction of our only home, the earth. How many think you will be among those chosen when space ships go to another home, after this one is uninhabitable? How many think about the reality that your children and grandchildren -- if not yourselves -- will be alive when the waters rise?

 

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He did state that we can't solve our financial problems on the backs of senior seniors and the poorest citizens.  I commented: 

 

"We slipped into a kind of capitalism that allowed corporations to become "people," meaning - in reality - they became separate nations within our nation, with their own rules, laws, and privileges that allowed them to be excluded from the laws and ideals of the larger society. Admit they are now imperial units. Bring them back onto the tax rolls and back into the Union. Think of Lincoln.  His abiding idea was preservation of the Union, with participation of all parts, including especially those who disagreed, in order to work out the ideals of democracy within the inevitable and useful contentions of competing ideas and people."