Why are Americans who believe in their Divine Right to be The Right, denying necessary stewardship of a raped planet earth, over-consuming to diminish life upon it?
How can we, by example, exude a recaptured Civics oasis of genuine all-inclusive patriotism dedicated to a collective civic duty, peacefully transforming Supreme, Citizens United of economic elitism to a conglomerate of united citizenry ever evolving in Constitutional awareness, lifting all to that higher ground of solid rock, finally becoming a, City of Light, knowing, the glow from that fire can truly light the world.
Yet, in a mind set by a nation of people so mesmerized by personal devices, indoctrinated by the redundancy of scrolling talking-heads, inundated by myths of past glories, indoctrinated with educational half-truths missing, the half has never been told, hoodwinked by religious hypocrites who believe faith blesses only those genuflecting before, The Street's CEOs - can any nation so conceived, and so dedicated, long endure?
Maybe greatness comes from unity that nourishes individual exceptionalism. Perhaps our new normal can purge past mistakes by a present that refuses to repeat them for future generations.
If an elbow bump preserves, a mask protects and social distancing defends, what couldn't we do together to eradicate our history replete with whipping posts, emotional scars, mental health neglect, domestic rape, foreign pillage and save, love thy neighbor as thyself from white supremist mob rule.
Bullies don't pardon their pawns. They take their money for fraudulent conspiracies, then sacrifice them. Only a traitor could think that makes America great, and only those indoctrinated as some Europeans were in the 1930s, would fight for it.
It takes a village to enable the unethical to Blowout America's soul; because there are corporate induced shortages created to profit off families and small businesses during COVID-19, always follow the money.
The greater danger to America is not the herd mentality that pummeled us into facing existential issues we've ignored, but those we've elected to occupy our attacked Capitol building, who have been siphoning off our exceptionalism for decades, sacrificing our country and their constituents to the Demagogues of Party politics.
To be a UNITED States of America requires internalizing, and living one simple truth: The rising tide of women, gays, Native Americans, Latinx, African Americans and immigrants also lifts all those European descendants who've forgotten who built their boats.
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