I read a VERY depressing Washington Post news item on my phone. Former CIA officials say the social unrest they are seeing here, AND the heavy handed presidential response, is disturbingly similar to what they have seen in 3rd world countries that were “circling the drain”.
Hopefully our nation has the fortitude to rise above bad leadership and during the elections make a REAL difference. Then perhaps we will have enlightened legislators pass the laws that can, like a rising tide, “lift all boats”.
Election finance reform, redistricting reform, lobbying reform, “revolving door” from legislator to lobbyist reform, income tax code reform, minimum wage reform, health care reform,
And finally, and perhaps foremost, ENVIRONMENTAL LAW REFORM.
We as a nation are aching for these changes. If they do NOT come we are in for much more difficult times.
So VOTE, be ACTIVISTS and BE INFORMED.
Ancient Athenian saying, attributed to Pericles: “We say that a man who ‘minds his own business’ has no business here at all as a citizen.”
Don’t just ‘mind your own business’, mind your COUNTRY’S business.
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