In 2018 Trump announced that America is open for business. That was then. This time it is "America is for sale". And he only expects a 30% commission. The Art of the Deal.
Well, Obama had his fun, but not pleased about who’s laughing last.
Ridicule and disrespect ‘arms races’ are not good for US.
We need to try to find the good in most of those who, in the moment, or in the past, out of fear or insecurity, when due to misinformation or ignorance (or mental incapacity), at times have criticized, verbally abused, threatened, or even harmed us.
We also need to draw a clear line well before one gets to Trump or Hitler or Putin.
If we lack the courage, grace, imagination, persistence and other capacities necessary to civilly connect with the majority of people seeing red & wearing red hats, and to find with them many basic common purposes upon which a government and civilization is built, THEN - and only then - we are lost.
If we fail to see our fellow Americans as such, OR they, us, we are indeed ‘divided and cannot stand’, and ‘the center cannot hold’.
The ‘bigger’ person takes the first ‘however many’ steps toward reconciliation with the ignorant and disturbed. This includes examining their own ‘facts’, categorical values, and polemics.
The wise person draws that clear line between that large number of our fellow Americans with whom we must often disagree, and the rare extreme American abomination we cannot countenance… and NOT between US.
In 2018 Trump announced that America is open for business. That was then. This time it is "America is for sale". And he only expects a 30% commission. The Art of the Deal.
Well, Obama had his fun, but not pleased about who’s laughing last.
Ridicule and disrespect ‘arms races’ are not good for US.
We need to try to find the good in most of those who, in the moment, or in the past, out of fear or insecurity, when due to misinformation or ignorance (or mental incapacity), at times have criticized, verbally abused, threatened, or even harmed us.
We also need to draw a clear line well before one gets to Trump or Hitler or Putin.
If we lack the courage, grace, imagination, persistence and other capacities necessary to civilly connect with the majority of people seeing red & wearing red hats, and to find with them many basic common purposes upon which a government and civilization is built, THEN - and only then - we are lost.
If we fail to see our fellow Americans as such, OR they, us, we are indeed ‘divided and cannot stand’, and ‘the center cannot hold’.
The ‘bigger’ person takes the first ‘however many’ steps toward reconciliation with the ignorant and disturbed. This includes examining their own ‘facts’, categorical values, and polemics.
The wise person draws that clear line between that large number of our fellow Americans with whom we must often disagree, and the rare extreme American abomination we cannot countenance… and NOT between US.