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When Government Was Almost Always the Answer to Big Problems…
Few of us still believe that assertion since many of the elected will stand by, or lie, as Americans die.
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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.
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I am not saying what was accomplished 50 years ago was better in every instance; it was only more likely Republicans would work with Democrats, and vice versa. My position is that the political situation was not a whole hell of a lot better when reaching across the aisle was supposedly more common, since mostly White men were making all the decisions anyway. Today, state legislatures and Congress just do things in a different bad way. Maybe half of it is not even their fault, the remainder a…
