I don’t know anyone who is happy with the direction of the country. Certainly not those on the woke left who are unhappy with everything, and certainly not those on the conservative right who see the nation going along a downward path. The latest survey I saw showed that over seventh percent of Americans were unhappy with the direction of the country and my only question was, what do the other thirty per cent see that I am missing?
The attached article offers three ideas to turn our nation around. I certainly do not see our national leaders taking them to heart, but I do believe that each of us in our own small way can put the three ideas into action. Growing up, I was taught to believe that anything was possible in the United States. Who taught me that? Adults who had grown up during the Great Depression and who knew real poverty. Those same adults had years taken from them by World War II and millions of the survivors saw horrors that defy description. Some of those adults were survivors of death camps and gulags where the very essence of their value as individuals was brutally stripped away from them. As I look back now, if those adults could have faith in the future, what exactly is our problem?
You may agree, you may disagree, but if we don’t begin to take positive steps at the local level, don’t be surprised when our political leaders who play to our fears do not work to change our direction.
As Nietzsche wrote: I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.
