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Dr. Joanie Tool's avatar

I too, would never wish for hardship among human beings just to prove a point that this soulless felon should NEVER have been allowed near our government again. BUT … I do hope that the EXTRAORDINARY degree of chaos, misery, selfishness, pain and inequity that has already begun before he even has been sworn in. Before he even is President. I hope that it will be so drastic that people who ‘don’t pay attention to politics or are too busy just getting by day to day to focus on the details of government and elections’ … that they will be FORCED TO NOTICE. That this horrific time of painful disarray that will hurt an unfathomable number of Americans and non-Americans will actually be the bottom we apparently needed to hit in order to make real meaningful changes in our government, our political system and our ways of being. That this absolute dissolution of everything we have known will, while very painful and upsetting, be THE THING we all needed to finally get serious about our environment decay, our rights being stripped from us, the way we treat each others and those we consider ‘different’ from us. That we will get money out of politics. Money out of our prison system. Police reform. Gun control. Resources allocated for public goods like the public school system, PBS, NPR, Medicare, Universal Healthcare. Head start, preschool, early intervention programs, therapies and programs for all children who are in need. Truly reforming this wonderful country of ours. Equality and social justice. Reparations for many many people. Teaching the FULL AND ACCURATE history of this country to all of our children so they will be educated and equipped to sustain these changes in our manner of moving forward with peace and justice for all.

Maybe we need to go through entropy of massive proportion in order to reach the other side. In order to actually have the country out ancestors dreamt could be possible? This is what I hope. This is what I BELIEVE can be true.

Let us do it together. ☮️

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Al Bellenchia's avatar

"There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity." - Robertson Davies (a Canadian).

And here we are…

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