We’re on the earth to love one other; that’s not just in our personal behavior, it’s in our collective behavior as well. Love can infuse our political, social and economic relationships as well as our personal ones. In fact it has to or we won’t make it.
Probably the most important thing for us to remember about how terrible some things are in the world is that it doesn’t have to be this way. Bad behavior & bad policies created the mess, and good behavior and good policies will fix it. There is another way.
Read a book? There haven’t been 50 years of Democratic policies. There have been 50 years of Democratic and Republican policies, and mosy of the ones you mentioned were Republican.
Even before the pandemic, 40% of Americans could not absorb a $400 unexpected expenditure. There is no way in the world that that $400 is not gone by now. 40% of all Americans. Let me repeat that. 40% of all Americans.
We’re going to articulate a more compassionate world and then we’re going to make it happen. That, or after a while there will simply be no more world.
In the 21st-century, the survival of the fittest will not be the most ruthless or the most tough; it will be the kindest, the most wise, the most collaborative.
That’s what Secretaries of State are for, Alana. Many of them are Republican. That’s what judges are for. Many of them are Republican. That’s what our Attorney General is for. He is a Republican. They checked. No fraud. He lost.
During the pandemic, the pharmaceutical industry has increased the price of at least 245 prescription drugs. That is an outrage. Congress must take on the greed of the drug companies and end the absurdity of Americans paying, by far, the highest prices in the world.