Hillary Clinton missed the zeitgeist, while Barack Obama not only recognized and embraced it, but due in large part to his diverse cultural and racial background, actually embodies it.

Barack’s message of Hope and Change found greater resonance in the Democratic electorate than Hillary’s message of Experience and Leadership. The latter no doubt polled well in Mark Penn’s focus groups, but that was the past talking, not the future. Clinton’s adoption of Bob Shrum’s “I will fight for you” trope was subsumed and transcended by Barack’s appeal to “we the people” as the agency of change, to thee versus me.

That, I suggest, is a key part of the post-Bush era zeitgeist, a German word generally translated as “spirit of the age,” taken from the Latin genius seculi— literally, “the guardian spirit of the century.”

The notion of a guiding hand in history finds expression in The Urantia Book in a Paper titled “The Seraphic Planetary Government,” a council comprised of twelve divisions of “angels” (none of whom have wings, but some of whom have “friction shields”!).  At least two of the divisions are relevant here. They are:

The epochal angels. These are the angels of the current age, the dispensational group. These celestial ministers are intrusted with the oversight and direction of the affairs of each generation as they are designed to fit into the mosaic of the age in which they occur. The present corps of epochal angels serving on Urantia is the third group assigned to the planet during the current dispensation.

The angels of nation life. These are the ” angels of the trumpets, ” directors of the political performances of Urantia national life. The group now functioning in the overcontrol of international relations is the fourth corps to serve on the planet. It is particularly through the ministry of this seraphic division that ” the Most Highs rule in the kingdoms of men. “

Believing such a narrative is, of course, a leap of faith. But if political Hope has a spiritual component, this may be it.

One can be forgiven for asking, however:  Where the hell have they been for the last few years?!?  Why would they allow an incompetent, messianically deluded, malignant narcissist like George W. Bush to occupy the most powerful office on the planet, to take a wrecking ball to the world?

I assume the answer is found in a spiritual mandate requiring them to walk a fine line between human free will and celestial overcontrol. On their way to ruling in “the kingdoms of men,” the Most Highs must funambulate their way across a vast canyon separating spirit and matter.

Hope is thinking that the historical pendulum is now swinging away from the selfishness of the past and towards the more inclusive, spiritual pole of the future. In the end, Hillary was the candidate of ideas, Barack the candidate of ideals:

Ideas may take origin in the stimuli of the outer world, but ideals are born only in the creative realms of the inner world. Today the nations of the world are directed by men who have a superabundance of ideas, but they are poverty-stricken in ideals. That is the explanation of poverty, divorce, war, and racial hatreds. (ibid)

So be it.

NEW ORLEANS— John McCain stammered his way through one of his more memorable speeches ever Tuesday night, but unfortunately it was memorable for the number of speaking miscues off the teleprompter, not the content. It was memorable for the forced, creepy smiles at the end of sentences that didn’t warrant them. Even his repetitious blinking was unnerving. And with more than twenty word fumbles through the course of this painfully long Geritol info-mercial, it was particularly telling that CNN felt it necessary to put a “HAPPENING NOW” tag directly over McCain’s right lung.

I knew the evening was going to go badly when the Phoney from Arizoney began by adding an extra syllable to “New Or-le-ans.” Bush’s constant mangling of “nu-cu-lar” sprang instantly to mind, and thus a speech designed to separate the two men joined at the fragile hip of John McCain was doomed to failure.

Then this mis-speak, only two and a half minutes in: “I believe that still; but we must rise the occasion as we always have.” Well, he didn’t “rise the occasion.” He sank, and he continued to sink until CNN cut away. But all was not lost. My favorite McBushism from the speech was this line: “The right change will stop impeding Americans from doing what they have always done, overcome every obstacle to our progress, turn challenges and opportunity into opportunities. . .”

Over-powered by what the press called the “Lime Green Monster,” the background from hell gave McCain a pallor only a cadaver could love. But with timing that could only have been arranged through divine providence, McCain dropped this turd-bomb bomb bomb right before one of the most historic speeches ever to be delivered in America, Barack Obama’s announcement to the world that a black and white man had turned an opportunity into an opportunity to run for president of the United States.

A venue tip to McCain’s advance people: Never— ever— choose a venue where the acoustics are such that one big-mouth supporter can rise teh occasion by drowning out the rest of the audience. Very creepy. And speaking of loudest. McCain drew his loudest applause when he read without error, “They might think me an imperfect servant of our country, which I surely am; but I am her servant, first, last, and always.” Great.

But we don’t need another “servant” in the white house. We need a leader.

WASHINGTON — John McCain defended his plan for veterans’ college benefits Monday, as both he, and Barack Obama spoke to veterans on Memorial Day. Hillary Clinton campaigned Monday in Puerto Rico. Obama and McCain have sparred from a distance recently over the bill, sometimes with what the MSM calls “heated words.”

In his comments on Memorial Day, McCain did not mention Obama by name, such a clever fellow, but it was clear he was talking Obama. McCain said his was the right position rather than “the politically expedient one,” suggesting Obama was on the wrong side of the Jim Webb bill, which passed the senate last week. The bill will substantially increase educational benefits for service members. A more limited version that McCain had supported, was blocked.

McCain: “I am running for the office of commander in chief. That is the highest privilege in this country, and it imposes the greatest responsibilities. And this is why I am committed to our bill, despite the support Senator Webb’s bill has received. It would be easier, much easier politically for me to have joined Senator Webb in offering his legislation.”

Umm. . . So you support your own bill because you’re “running for the office of commander in chief”?? You can’t join with the twenty-five members of your own party and support the Webb bill because— it’s not yours?? Isn’t this the same moronic partisan-think that has created the most polarized government in our history?

Because McCain said Webb’s measure would give the same benefit to everyone regardless of how many times he or she has reenlisted. He said he feared that would depress reenlistments by those wanting to attend college after only a “few years in uniform.” McCain said the bill he favored would have increased scholarships based on length of service.

Now remember, McCain, despite his whoring around for fringe religionists like John Hagee and Rod Parsley, portrays himself as a conservative, mainstream, unbaptized Baptist. One must assume that somewhere along the way, he’s heard the parable of the vineyard workers. All but you heathens will recall, that’s the one where the vineyard owner hired workers at a denarius a day, or roughly $20 bucks; bottom line, it was a fair wage for a day’s work.

Anyway, the guy— let’s just call him Vino— goes out to the market for his morning cappuccino, and seeing laborers standing around, says, ” Go work in my vineyard, and I’ll pay you whatever is right.” And the same thing happens at lunchtime, and at three in the afternoon, and yep, again at five as well; and Vino, generous vintner that he is, gives them all the same offer.

But when the men who had been slogging grapes since nine in the morning saw these guys dragging in after five, they imagined they should get more than the promised denarius. But when Vino pays up, the bitching started: “These guys who were hired last worked only one stinkin’ hour, and yet you paid them the same as us, who have worked the entire day in the frakkin’ scorchin’ sun.”

But the Vino, stoked on his own juice, was ready for them. He says: “‘My friends, I’m not doin’ you wrong. Didn’t each of you agree to work a day for a Jackson? So take your Twenty and hit the road! It’s my business to give to those who came last just as much as I gave to you. Is it against the law for me to do what I want with my own money? Or do you begrudge my generosity because I desire to be good and to show mercy?”

Well, long story short, McCain doesn’t understand the common generosity of the American people’s wish to compensate our soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines— those who step into harm’s way to defend our nation— with a decent educational opportunity wherewith they can become productive citizens with a good life like, ahem, the rest of us.

On Saturday Barack Obama told veterans while campaigning in Puerto Rico : “I don’t understand why John McCain would side with George Bush and oppose our plan to make college more affordable for our veterans. George Bush and John McCain may think our plan is too generous. I could not disagree more.”

McCain says: “I take a back seat to no one in my affection, respect, and devotion to veterans.” Well. A back seat to no one— besides the senators, congressmen and women, and citizens who stepped up to support the troops by paying them the Jackson they’ve earned whether they served little, or much. That’s generosity. That’s American.

First we get Hucklebee making funny about a gun being pointed at Obama.

Then we get the Clint justifying staying in the campaign because Obama could get hisself assassinated by some hard-working white gumball.

Now we get Faux Noise “contributor” Liz Fox Trotter, who supposedly recognizes Hillary Clinton’s comment was a “campaign killer,” and not a minute later coughs up her own career-killing hairball:

“And now we have what some are reading as a suggestion that somebody knock off Osama, uh, Obama. Well, both, if we could. AHEH HEH Heh heh!”

” Oh yes, I am so sorry about what happened yesterday and the lame attempt at humor. I really just fell all over myself, in making it appear that I wished Barack Obama harm or any other candidate, for that matter, I sincerely regret it and apologize to anybody I’ve offended. And uh, sa, it’sa very colorful political season, and many of us are making mistakes and saying things we wish we hadn’t said.”

Bill Faux Hemmer: “Clarification noted. Thank you Liz.”

‘Splain it to me. How could that have been an attempt at humor? How could it be funny and on what scale?? Especially in the freakin’ context of her telling us that Hillary is “tone-deaf”!!

She was being cute and kissing FOX ass, in a stupid, toadying way— without a fucking brain in her head.
So, Clinton should have her campaign killed for her “tone-deaf” remark, but Trotta, gets to pass go and collect $200?

How does the clarification that this is a “colorful” political season (Say, is that colored fella still in the race? Or did he get “knocked off”?) alter her responsibility for what she said in any way?

Does the “many of us . . . making mistakes and saying things we wish we hadn’t include Hillary Clinton, now?

How frakkin’ brain dead does a Faux Contributor have to be to say that and think it’s an attempt at humor? And to whom?? Who thinks an American presidential candidate deserves to be “knocked off” just like a religious fanatic responsible for killing thousands of people?

You can’t make this shit up! It’s like they can’t control they’re own mouths from smirking out the truth.

File a complaint with the FCC here: http://esupport.fcc.gov/complaints.htm

(Although I could never get their online form to take the “program date.”  How convenient.  You can file by email if that happens to you, too.)

Arianna Huffington says to stop yelling at the Clint and and start yelling at the Dems— the SuperDems— to get their vote on. So who are these slacker/power mongers? People who are holding back to be among the “deciders”? They’re listed here.

If you know any of them, it’s time to shoot’em— an email— and get the nomination process over with. Why aren’t Super Delegates required to vote when the rest of their home state is required to vote? The only undecided Super delegates should be the ones associated with the remaining state primaries; Montana, South Dakota. And Puerto Rico. Enough already.

It’s about time to review this.

The complete original narration:

My friends, each of you is a single cell in the great body of the State. And today, that great body has purged itself of parasites. We have triumphed over the unprincipled dissemination of facts. The thugs and wreckers have been cast out. And the poisonous weeds of disinformation have been consigned to the dustbin of history. Let each and every cell rejoice! For today we celebrate the first, glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directive! We have created, for the first time in all history, a garden of pure ideology, where each worker may bloom secure from the pests of contradictory and confusing truths. Our Unification of Thought is a more powerful weapon than any fleet or army on Earth! We are one people. With one will. One resolve. One cause. Our enemies shall talk themselves to death. And we will bury them with their own confusion! We shall prevail!

The original Apple commercial aired during the 1984 Super Bowl, and introduced the world to Macintosh computers. The clever fellow who mashed up the ad took a commercial masterpiece and re-interpreted the images in a powerful new way; but what is almost as important, he did it as an individual. The ad was quickly hailed as proof that anybody can do powerful ads. It also shows that the 21st century broadcast model will no longer necessarily be a top-down candidate message put out by someone in charge at the campaign. It shows that political activists have gone from being mere donors to the cause, to being partners in the fight. And they don’t wait for anyone’s permission.

As Obama continues to emerge as the embodiment of a new hope for American politics and the future of the nation, the cynicism of the old way of doing things will not just silently evaporate from the American psyche like dew before the sun. It will be as we have seen, a wallowing in the mire of the old way, as some cannot learn or genuinely embrace a new way. It will spread as a singular achievement by each individual, as they each grow into a personal awareness that a new way of doing politics actually transcends the old divides, by replacing them with new vision and insight into the truest and highest values that may come to guide us as a people.

As the original narration intones, “We are one people. With one will. One resolve. One cause.” But the horrible mantel of a dictator could never effect such unity in a free people; only a forced uniformity; see lock-stepped Republicans under Bush.   Still, there is every hope that some day every one of us might freely embrace unity as a people, and finally transcend the stultifying uniformity of today’s political parties.

Where have I seen this movie before?

Oh yeah. Here:

In between multiple plugs for natural gas, pharmaceutical companies who want to help me find free drugs, and Preparation H, Timeh the Russert potato-head opined on why the remaining super-delegates are not moved to give The Clint a reprieve on her life support.

The Clint
“If you want my guns you’ll have to pry them from my cold dead fingers.”

But there may be a more idealistic reason super-delegates want to get out of the emergency room, where The Clint must conduct her campaign from here on. The super-delegates hear Obama loud and clear when he talks about how “we” will end the old politics of division: “We will end it by telling the truth, forcefully, repeatedly, and confidently. . . even if it’s coming from an imperfect messenger.”

Rare though it might be, telling the truth isn’t entirely novel for politicians. We may have the attention of the 81% of Americans who believe we’re headed in the wrong direction, but it will still depend on just how much truth the American people truly want to hear.

The truth is powerful stuff; Jesus said knowing the truth would set you free. Can you imagine what kind of truth you’ll be hearing from John McCain in the next five months? Will it measure up to the truth you’ll be hearing from Barack Obama during that time?

Just the fact that Obama is perceptive enough to see that speaking the truth to power— which is really what he means— is essential to changing our nation’s direction, is practically revolutionary on its face, given the commonplace lying of politics today, and indicative of the “new politics” that must come to pervade our culture as true ethics for the twenty-first century.

The next five months will give Obama plenty of time to shape the new direction our country must head, and there will be plenty of time to contrast the truth of his vision for America with that of McCain, the self-proclaimed man of the twentieth century. The distinctions should be powerful and striking; McCain, if he can remain lucid, will be debating a man with a confident grasp on the morals and ethics for a new century; Obama will be debating a man with a death grip on the outworn ethics and corrupt morals of the past century.

Social and economic change will require many months, but the moral and spiritual changes that are quietly underpinning the swing of our ship of state in a new direction can be embraced immediately, even though the social repercussions of the Obama phenomena may be rippling across the social fabric of the United States for decades to come.

Barack Obama told reporters of the MSM Mouse Circus he ate a lot of pot roasts and Jello molds growing up.
Stunned reporters asked why an elitist would ever admit to “eating pot roasted and jello molded.”

Atienne, a resident of a small town in Northwestern PA, responded to their stupidity this way:

This is the problem with the MSM. I would challenge any of those who feel they don’t know him or think he’s an elitist to go and see him for yourself. Most of the rallies are free and open to the public. If you really want to know and get his feel. . . just go!

Seeing him in Pittsburgh was one of the greatest things I’ve done outside of my family and career. Why? Because I could personally bear witness to one of the great human beings of our time! Not just a great man, not a great black man, not a great bi-racial man, but great human being! PERIOD!

I saw that this man had inspired that group of about 10,000 people to come together, put their differences aside and treat each other with respect. People talked about how he had inspired them to do “better,” take an interest for the first time in their government, and what they can do to help their country.

Now, if only the MSM would start reporting on THAT!

I have lived in Pennsylvania most of my life, both in bigger cities and small towns. I currently live in a small town that has been ravaged by job loss, industry shutting down and jobs being given to those who will work for less in foreign countries. While some paint a rosy, romantic version of Pennsylvania. . . Barack points out the other side of PA.

Yes, people ARE bitter— and do take refuge in other things besides politics. People go to work, college and yet still are unable to obtain that American dream without bouncing checks to feed their families. I see it daily, and I work in a corporate environment while my husband works in the steel industry. People here are struggling. While some won’t let the state of things dampen their spirits, there are others that are bitter, depressed, and angry! Perhaps Hillary Clinton or John McCain should tour these small areas and visit the local taverns, meth houses, and crack houses.

The phenomenon in the small towns is that these people are drinking and drugging their lives away; they are mostly people that had good jobs at one time before most of the factories pulled out. My community is trying for a comeback, but there is a very ugly reality here and I, for one, am pleased that a politician finally has the guts to tell it like it is!

I don”t sip wine, never had a latte, my man works in a steel tubing plant and we”re BOTH voting Obama in the general and did so in the PA primary! We BOTH know flag pins are made in China, preachers and charity board members are nonsense, and have been spun to fool the foolish! We BOTH know and remember the lies, lies, and the more lies of the Clinton years then, and now! John McCain can”t stick to the same answer from one interview to the next. So our choice is clear.

Atienne— I’m a married mother of two wonderful children and 3 huge dogs! My career has taken me through social services, law, broadcast and advertising and now marketing for the Safety Industry. In past years, I haven’t felt moved or compelled by any election such as this. But over the years, I’ve watched the American dream slip away for many including my own family, and I’m eager to have a voice to make it stop. I support Barack Obama for PRESIDENT!

God how the dead men
Grin by the wall.
Watching the fun
Of the Victory Ball.

—Alfred Noyes

John and Cindy McCain, (who was not actually there but sent a clone), looking appropriately Hasidic at the Western Wall

Michael D. Shear, WaPo wrote:

JERUSALEM — What was supposed to be a somber visit by Sen. John McCain to the Western Wall this morning was marred by an unruly mob of Israeli photographers, police and tourists who threw punches at each other as they engulfed the Republican presidential candidate.

McCain was not hurt, but appeared rattled by the spasm of violence as he began a second day of meetings with high-level Israeli officials as part of a congressional trip to the Middle East and Europe.

The crush of people surrounded McCain (Ariz.) after he and Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-S.C.) briefly touched the towering wall at the base of the Temple Mount, where the Second Temple stood until its destruction nearly two thousand years ago. The senators placed notes in the cracks between the ancient stones, a common tradition. McCain declined through a spokesman to reveal what his note said.

We’re not going to tell you how we obtained the text of that note, suffice it to say that many Jews still consider the placing of such prayers to be desecration of the holy. McCain produced the note from his left suit coat pocket, and with a series of awkward looking jabs, he finally forced the note into a tiny crevice of the ancient wall.

Surprisingly, the note was not penned in McCain’s jerky scrawl, but appeared to be a first draft, printed off the computer in crisp, orderly, 18 point justified type. The note:

My Dear Western Wall Friends    Friend,

As you know, I’m the Republican nominee for president of the United States, and unlike my opponents Hillary Clinton, a woman, or Barack Hussein Obama, a black man, I’m ready from day one to lead the fight for what ever, for ever. But today I need your help, dear friend. (I feel like I’m talking to a wall , ha ha!) Some of my good Jewish friends say you are more than just a frakin’ stone wall venerated by a superstitious people. If this is so, I’d like you to know— not just how important it is to me that I’m the next president— but also the staggeringly huge sum of money I need to continue the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and, more importantly, to wage new wars against Syria and Iran, and probably North Korea.

Oh, remember that great song, Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran! Well it isn’t just a great song my friend, it’s my ticket to another historic war presidency! (Nothing changes an enemy’s behavior like bombs, my friend, and lots of them; remember I’ve personally dropped my share of bombs on evil men, women, and children, and I’d like to think you’re the kind of wall that would want to support my willingness to continue this important attack against the ever present threats to our national security.)

So my friend, I’m going to need to recruit some seriously enormous amounts of young cannon fodder, in order to wage more wars in the global fight against terrorism, in order to keep my country safe from our many enemies who hate our freedom, the radical Islamist extremist terrorists, the Iranians, the North Koreans, the Syrians, and our future enemies, the Chinese commies, the Russian commies, and, well, you know, anybody that won’t see things our way.

If you could grant me this grotesque amount of blood and capital, my friend, I will ensure that the war against a world full of terrorists is fought intelligently, with endless patience and resolve, using all the toxic instruments of national power and death I can get my hands on. And I will lead this fight with the understanding that to impinge more than we already have on the rights of our own citizens, or to further restrict the freedoms for which our nation stands will be done only as necessary, because to do so is to give terrorists the victory they seek.

In closing my prayer, let me say that John McCain believes that just as America must be prepared to meet and prevail against any adversary on every field of battle, we must also engage and prevail against them on the battleground of ideas. So if you have any great ideas, please pass them along to my advisers. In so doing, we can and must deprive terrorists of the converts they seek and teach the doctrine of hatred and despair.

Your old friend in the White House,

John McCain

PARAG KHANNA writes in “Waving Goodbye to Hegemony“. . .

It is 2016, and the Hillary Clinton or John McCain or Barack Obama administration is nearing the end of its second term. America has pulled out of Iraq but has about 20,000 troops in the independent state of Kurdistan, as well as warships anchored at Bahrain and an Air Force presence in Qatar. Afghanistan is stable; Iran is nuclear. China has absorbed Taiwan and is steadily increasing its naval presence around the Pacific Rim and, from the Pakistani port of Gwadar, on the Arabian Sea. The European Union has expanded to well over 30 members and has secure oil and gas flows from North Africa, Russia and the Caspian Sea, as well as substantial nuclear energy. America’s standing in the world remains in steady decline.

Why? Weren’t we supposed to reconnect with the United Nations and reaffirm to the world that America can, and should, lead it to collective security and prosperity? Indeed, improvements to America’s image may or may not occur, but either way, they mean little.

And that is so because, not only did we not “reconnect with the United Nations,” but we remain clueless about the growing urgency of establishing the working rudiments of a genuine federation of all nations, bringing about a global government.

The cruel irony is, the nation of independent states who surrendered their sovereignty to a federal government and thereby created the strongest, freest nation on planet earth, has shown neither the moral insight or leadership ability to engineer the same workable model on a global scale. Instead, we have a moronic cowboy who takes democracy to other nations through war and occupation, killing a million or so of the natives in the process.

Condoleezza Rice has said America has no “permanent enemies,” but it has no permanent friends either. Many saw the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq as the symbols of a global American imperialism; in fact, they were signs of imperial overstretch. Every expenditure has weakened America’s armed forces, and each assertion of power has awakened resistance in the form of terrorist networks, insurgent groups and “asymmetric” weapons like suicide bombers. America’s unipolar moment has inspired diplomatic and financial counter-movements to block American bullying and construct an alternate world order. That new global order has arrived, and there is precious little Clinton or McCain or Obama could do to resist its growth.

Yep; the hegemony wielded by Imperial America has done just as much to grow an “alternate world order” than anything Europe or China has done. Nor does it serve America’s interests to do anything to inhibit their growth. Perhaps when we find the collective wisdom to use the power jointly in an effort to insure peace throughout the world, we can begin solving the grievances smaller nations have concerning their place in the “alternate world order.”

The Geopolitical Marketplace

At best, America’s unipolar moment lasted through the 1990s, but that was also a decade adrift. The post-cold-war “peace dividend” was never converted into a global liberal order under American leadership. So now, rather than bestriding the globe, we are competing — and losing — in a geopolitical marketplace alongside the world’s other superpowers: the European Union and China. This is geopolitics in the 21st century: the new Big Three.

And we will continue to lose. . . unless we recognize we all sink or swim together. Each passing year brings new urgency to solve the increasingly complex problems our interdependent world brings; and these problems will persist as long as we continue to cling to the illusive notions of unlimited national sovereignty.

The growth of political power must continue to encompass larger and larger segments of the total of mankind, until the stage is set for the final consummation of political growth— the government of all mankind, by all mankind, and for all mankind.

Urantia [earth] will not enjoy lasting peace until the so-called sovereign nations intelligently and fully surrender their sovereign powers into the hands of the brotherhood of men—mankind government. Internationalism—Leagues of Nations—can never bring permanent peace to mankind. World-wide confederations of nations will effectively prevent minor wars and acceptably control the smaller nations, but they will not prevent world wars nor control the three, four, or five most powerful governments. In the face of real conflicts, one of these world powers will withdraw from the League and declare war.

You cannot prevent nations going to war as long as they remain infected with the delusional virus of national sovereignty. Internationalism is a step in the right direction. An international police force will prevent many minor wars, but it will not be effective in preventing major wars, conflicts between the great military governments of earth.

As the number of truly sovereign nations (great powers) decreases, so do both opportunity and need for mankind government increase. When there are only a few really sovereign (great) powers, either they must embark on the life and death struggle for national (imperial) supremacy, or else, by voluntary surrender of certain prerogatives of sovereignty, they must create the essential nucleus of supernational power which will serve as the beginning of the real sovereignty of all mankind.

Peace will not come to Urantia until every so-called sovereign nation surrenders its power to make war into the hands of a representative government of all mankind. Political sovereignty is innate with the peoples of the world. When all the peoples of Urantia create a world government, they have the right and the power to make such a government SOVEREIGN; and when such a representative or democratic world power controls the world’s land, air, and naval forces, peace on earth and good will among men can prevail but not until then. —The Urantia Book