Make America Work Again

Yesterday I received a text with this frightening question:

“Do you know what is truly terrifying? Dem’s TOTAL control:

—Higher Taxes—Defunding the Police—Packing the Courts”

I did not inquire about the identity of the sender(s). But a little later, I thought I might hazard a guess about the intent of this all-spooks-day message.   

My guess is that the senders are star-struck republicans who’ve been taken for a ride on the make-america-fear-againtrumper train.  But that train is scheduled for departure from the DC station on Wednesday, this week. Maybe they want me to hop on.

No thank you. Now is not the time to foment fear and suspicion. What we do need now is across-the-aisle cooperation. We need to get together and find  fixes for these covid condundra, our economic shortfalls and employment woes.

Now is the time for all men and women to come to the aid of our fellow-citizens.

Just like in the 1930's, there is plenty of work out there that needs to be done. 

But the bygone days of rampant resource recovery are gone forever. We find ourselves now in an age of rabid resource rapacity.

The truth is: We need to restructure--to update--most of our industrial base with an eye toward meeting the needs of a planet that is suffering from resource deficits.

Our beloved home-sweet-home is being depleted of the precious minerals and resources that made us great back in the days of Douglass, Carnegie, Bell, Vanderbilt, Carver, Louie Armstrong, Rockefeller, Morgan, Ellington, Gershwin, Thurgood, Rosa Parks and Go-Cat-Go!

We need business and industry leaders now, for the 21st-century, who are motivated by constructive, public-minded, practical creativity, instead of the obsolete, worn-out motivator of fat'n'happy pappy and their so-called "citizens united" politically-domineering profiteers. 

Along with that, We need a .gov executive branch that will bring Americans back together to get done whatever needs to be done--to keep us functioning as the already-great nation/planet we are.

But let me step off the soapbox.

Meanwhile back at the ranch . . .

In de-crypting yesterday's fear-monger message, I was puzzled about what entity could they be referring to in that mysterious “Dem’s”  reference.

My guess is its Democrats they’re alluding to.

But that didn’t make any sense, because one of the most effective, problem-solving Dems of all time delivered such a magnanimous challenge to us--to our make-america-great grandparents, in his inaugural address in 1933:

“ So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is...fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. In every dark hour of our national life a leadership of frankness and of vigor has met with that understanding and support of the people themselves which is essential to victory. And I am convinced that you will again give that support to leadership in these critical days.”

So their fearmongering make-america-scared-again campaign won’t work on me.  Guess I fooled them!

Glass half-Full