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What’s going on in our country?
So much rhetoric. So much impotent rage animating the snarky humor we seem addicted to these days. It’s like somewhere in the basement of our minds, we’ve resigned ourselves to the mess we’re in.
Saturday Night Live nailed it.
This “ain’t nothin’ gonna happen” attitude is rampant and could well be our undoing. If this is what we believe, we will only lose.
Spoiler alert: We will all lose. Nobody is winning this game. It’s the wrong game to be playing anyway. Because even if ‘we’ won, it would only increase the divisions in our country. Those bitter disagreements don’t go away just because we got more votes.
Also, given the recent revelations of our election system’s vulnerabilities, disinformation campaigns, and the fact that nobody trusts anyone anymore, there doesn’t seem to be any way out.
It occurs to me that this is because we might be looking for a way out by 2020, which is never going to happen. Too much damage has been done for way too long, way longer than the past couple years. Longer than the past decade, or even the past century.
