{"id":4110,"date":"2019-02-05T09:35:58","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T08:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=4110"},"modified":"2019-02-05T10:01:04","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T09:01:04","slug":"the-state-of-the-union-faces-and-voices-of-resistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/?p=4110","title":{"rendered":"The State of the Union, faces and voices of resistance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2019\/feb\/05\/state-of-the-union-trump-to-call-for-unity-as-he-tries-to-reboot-presidency\">Guardian<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bill Whalen,\u00a0who was chief speechwriter for the former California governor Pete Wilson and responsible for his annual state of the state address, said: \u201cThere is uncertainty over interruptions by Democrats. We have plenty of faces of resistance but will we get a voice of resistance through heckling? The second question is, how unified are the Republicans? It\u2019s a tricky time for him to be in front of them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Whalen, now a research fellow at the Hoover Institution thinktank in Palo Alto, California, added: \u201cThe State of the Union has become a very sad spectacle. We\u2019re much more interested in the drama, the theatrics, what people are wearing. It\u2019s like an awards show. We don\u2019t pay much attention to the substance.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A local Meetup group has an excursion planned for Sachsenhausen in a couple weeks. I&#8217;ve been to Sachsenhausen twice, most recently last spring. The temperature here has been hovering around 1\u00b0C, so the foundations of Georg Elser&#8217;s cell will be white with frost. I wonder what Elser&#8217;s face of resistance was like through four Sachsenhausen Februaries. His voice had spoken unmistakably.<\/p>\n<p>I am thinking of resistance this morning (which is not unusual, I often think of resistance). I am thinking of the struggle against Soviet occupa&shy;tion evenly remembered by my instructor in Vilnius: &#8222;That was our life, then.&#8220; She and I spoke of Romas Kalanta. I imagine Kalanta&#8217;s face of resistance in the end contorted, his voice of resistance a clarion call of flame.<\/p>\n<p>How does one shift one&#8217;s compatriots&#8216; points of reference away from television programming, broaden their concept of struggle to include more than heckling, lift their vision of leadership to something higher than a late night television comedian exemplar?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian: Bill Whalen,\u00a0who was chief speechwriter for the former California governor Pete Wilson and responsible for his annual state of the state address, said: \u201cThere is uncertainty over interruptions by Democrats. We have plenty of faces of resistance but will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/?p=4110\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}