08-20-2021, 08:15 AM
(08-20-2021, 01:20 AM)nguyenivy Wrote:(08-19-2021, 07:21 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: ...... I think this very month, the challenge has been rendered. We act, or we lose.
The choice is ours; we either get on board with the true regeneracy that started with the resistance to Trump in 2017, and act so that it takes the needed measures 1)to start to move our whole society quickly beyond fossil fuel use and other environmental and climate harm, 2)to end neo-liberalism (trickle-down/anti-welfare/anti-tax economics) and return to a thoroughly fair economy in all its aspects, 3)to end our uniquely-American gun obsession and start to control guns, 4)to end the assault on democracy and institute the needed reforms so that the Left can win, as it would in any fair system, 5)to remove as fully as we can the vestiges of systemic racism, anti-immigration, police brutality and other prejudice, and also reduce crime, and 6)reply to any terrorist threats with competent and targeted action rather than incompetent and random nation-building or world war, or our nation fails its 4T crisis test for the first time in anglo-american history. Boomers must lead, Xers organize, and Millennials participate fully on all levels in society, all on the blue and green side, for this to happen. We must do it all, and we CAN do it.
All 6 of those in what 8.5 years? I wonder how many of these will end up slipping up to solve in the 2T instead of now. Which of those fixes do you think the US will be able to actually implement during this 4T & which do you think will take longer to get a solid grip on?
I think we need to make some basic decisions to go in the right direction on these. The 4T is the time to make some big changes. Of course it will take many years afterward to fully implement and extend these remedies, but the challenge will be ongoing as we do.
