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When Government Was Almost Always the Answer to Big Problems…

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Few of us still believe that assertion since many of the elected will stand by, or lie, as Americans die. Photo by   History in HD   on  Unsplash . . Essay originally published on Medium . . The January 6th insurrection, and the COVID pandemic were both infected by a devaluing of Americans not in their group, whether black, blue, brown, or white lives. However you qualify the deaths of Americans over the last 21 months, I think somewhere around   three quarters of a million   were due to a government that could be, and was switched off in critical ways when we needed it most. There are two basic outcomes from this devolution of our government. Either a   slow climb   back towards political   solvency , achieving a   bipartisan, reaching-across-the-aisle   politics, closer to what we had 40 to 60 years ago,   or   a   quicker slide   into full devolution and dissolution. . I am not saying what was accomplished 50 years...

White People Are Hopeless

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 Sometimes admitting to your situation is cathartic and insightful, other times it is this… Photo by   Gabe Pierce   on  Unsplash . Originally published on Medium . . You may think I have given up on White people by the content of this article’s title. Before I answer that question in my on way, I wanted to provide Whites the ability to redeem themselves. I cannot say this will be an easy task, but I am sure you will consider it with an open heart, fertile mind, and an accepting embrace of the truth of your sorry judgement, lack of positive engagement, and for your personal worsening of our skin color predicament. . First, I must say.   Wow, Whitey!   You are commended for taking all that on so willingly. It is   almost   like White antiracist hopefulness is ascendant… While fabricating this wholly inaccurate mirage is repulsive, it gives me the same ignorance of bliss feeling that our racist commissions and omissions have for hundreds of years. ...