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No Tests, No Cases? Gatherings’ Numbers Shifting! Oblivious POTUS!?! – OpEdNews.com Headline
Yes, Beware the ides of March, but don’t choose to barhop as sacrificial lambs for green beer, when your being socially distant could spare all you hold dear.
We need get past the me first tribalism grip of pretend patriots believing only what someone we believe, in our tribe, believes.
So, to successfully reach and hopefully inspire all to wash our hands of the Coronavirus, please consider the following human stimulus, and unite:
Newt Gingrich – Ted Cruz – Tom Hanks
Absent any rancor, let us recalibrate our knowing what to believe, who to trust, when to turn off TV/Radio news coverage – while welcoming back the Fourth Estate by supporting media televising answers from medical and scientific professionals, to our pressing questions.
Being such public stewards of truth, timely information and educational updates transformed talking heads into keepers of the flame – most unlike leaders in the midst of abject failure, sending their supporters autographed charts showing fleeting stock market gains, after finally pendulum swinging from, the new hoax to, declaring the Coronavirus a National Emergency.
Results, however, bloom neither from trumped denial nor believing the president is the root of all our current evils. Solutions are found in the middle of reason, at the center of clear thinking, from the core of wisdom – for Covid-19 is but preamble to what a declining planet has yet to teach us.
Donald Trump did not cause the Coronavirus, but his Trade Wars, disregard for his oath of office, and apathy for the wellbeing of others, has divided and, at least for The Right, conquered our effective response to a life-threatening pandemic.
Nevertheless, neither past sins nor present social distancing are the only or best defense against a virus imposed new world order, sans access to movie theaters – for no matter what hue, gender or sexual persuasion, now the only politics of survival is, United We Stand.
Additionally, devices formerly contributing to our human disconnect, are now, aided and abetted by the Arts, the best assurance that we rise above closing America’s borders to humankind, while opening our doors to the monsters within – not only at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, but worse, minds closed to rational thought, the intelligence of science and the loving potential of an elbow bump.
With social distancing from Covid-19 saturation of mind, body and spirit and those too big to fail in commerce, finance and federal government, succeed at failing us, trust cooler health care R&D heads, and offer thanksgiving for their being our front line.
While recently some have failed to, beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves, let us concede, every generation has its collective face-to-face with what seems an insurmountable nemesis, and every person, a turning point in life.
So, let us remember, heed and stand atop our triumphant truths snatched from the jaws of defeat: Pearl Harbor, sixties’ assassinations, Vietnam War, HIV/Aids, 9/11, bankers’ induced Great Recession, Pharma induced Opioid addictions – for with resurrected courage, we will survive, indeed thrive after the trials of Trump/Pence/McConnell and tribulations of Covid-19, if rising recommitted to victory over our prejudices, fears and hate.
Of course, at some point we must acknowledge, there was a White House pandemic office, until Trump/Bolton closed it. For those who believed this was best for America’s national security, I beg of you to ask yourself, without recrimination: what about now.
Travel bans were always more self-deceiving than even believing America can victoriously sail the ocean blue anchored to a divided Democratic Party. Before American soil was invaded by Covid-19, we were a house divided, adrift and vulnerable to Wall Street pirates, Needing to disentangle from a trumped Ship of State, let’s dissolve all viral bewilderment.
We must now be America’s checks and balances, because the powers that a National Emergency give a president, must never be bestowed on one who, unlike, the buck stops here Truman, vows, I don’t take responsibility at all.
So, let’s commit to helping each other. Even if not able to lift every voice and sing, at least whistle a happy tune, knowing each individual melody, may be the perfect chord for those composing the harmony of hope.
What Coronavirus offers through our computers, cells and iPods, is the best way to fulfill our need for true unity of purpose, eye-contact communication and admitting the reality of each other.
Nevertheless, not even Global pandemic can be allowed to consume our thoughts, dreams and lives: there will be a tomorrow, if we replace banning others with banding together.
Covid-19 will challenge both personal and national balance of power, but social distancing and self-discipline will jumpstart our health care readiness and catapult our character on the wings of reason, courage and human-kindness.
Wrestling Dreads, Context and Walls from Evil’s Grip before 2020 – Tremr Staff Pick & OpEdNews.com Headline
Until we stop fixating on how unprecedented our unpresidential president is, we’re more problem than solution:
- Approximately 14,600 unaccompanied Migrant Children in American custody – at least two dying in DHS/ICE captivity
- Product dangers hidden in-plain-sight on labels
- Leadership abandoned to depravity even before UN Ambassador & Interior departures – and four Acting Cabinet members performing for a Trump deprived of all but directorial talent for apathy, bankruptcy and treason
1968 was a year of assassinations, that ended with an out of this world perspective of our humanity. Just as we lost confidence in our individual dreams of national competence, NASA’s scientists, engineers and three Apollo eight astronauts, proved America could still reach for the stars.
In 2018, arguably the year two-thirds of Americans, super-sizing their minds and hearts – now somewhat successfully, wading through institutional and personal deficits, heroically attempting to wrench Ol’ Glory from the grip of an inglorious administration – elected in Mid-Terms to unfurl Americans in the greater glory of civic responsibility restoration for: discounted differences, scorned religions, rejected LGBTQ community, relentless gender inequality and denial of climate challenges – rising above self-serving talking points – setting us free from political quick-sands.
However, 2018 remains our reignited struggle to reemerge into reasonable commonsense, committed to a national referendum to cease and desist permission for anyone, any movement or any political party eager to redact American democracy by appeasing the worst in us.
We the People persisted – Liberally cleansing our representative House of ill-repute with diversity’s many colors, creeds and preferences.
Yes, 2018 flip-flopped 1968 – from conquering the universe to choking on a Swamp Thing’s Shutdown war waged with delusions corralling closed minds, to wall in wage earners, surviving paycheck to paycheck.
Historically, older men have tripped America with twisted pontifications and tricky prevarications – but perhaps the writing on Trump’s Wall of disinformation, will finally demand self-realization from media Republican talking heads smirking at current GOP Congress, while hiding within their opportunistic mockery of Donald Trump: the Trickle-Down from Nixon to Bush/Cheney is the lineage they share with Conservatism consistently espousing, since Fred Koch and Prescott Bush – and now championed by referee bigotry and Chris Christie electoral faux analysis: because Trump chaos is not what Americans voted for in November 2016 – but what Putin’s Russians and Americans believing tea stained Facebook ads, elected.
In this holiday season, let us follow fewer Republican fruitcakes – like bad actor William Shatner’s context v. #MeToo – and beam up away from the foundation beneath the wings of hate, harassment and sexism.
Not even SJW can transport us back to change the era that allowed the author of our Declaration of Independence to sell human beings, but by Lincoln’s example, we can be ever vigilant, knowing the Ku Klux Klan lynched Michael Donald in Mobile Alabama in 1981 – and in 2017 the President of the United States referred to a murderously violent Alt-Right invasion of Jefferson’s Charlottesville as, good people on both sides.
While healing after Hate Crimes like, murder, rape and misogyny, may escape a Supreme Court confirmation charade – reclamation isn’t inaugurated by pleas favoring, context, but by demanding, content of character – and refusing to repeat any past inhumanity, as our best defense against the offense of, what is past is prologue.
In 2019, may we herald our better angels, both visible and Indivisible – patriots like Brett McGurk & Generals Mattis & Kelly, President John F. Kennedy & Al Gore, Penny Marshall & Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg – resolute in this truth: the legacy of Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, and the Republican control of all three branches of our national government is – one third of Americans who would still vote for Trump/Pence.
So, let us counter with our gifts: writing like the Pentagon Bureau Chief for Military Times Tara Copp & Maya Angelou – running for office like Abigail Spanberger, twenty-nine-year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and bucking Chicago’s Democratic machine – nineteen-year-old David Krupa.
Shall we allow our 2019 journey to 2020 to be a new Awakening that is Big enough to admit to ourselves, America’s greatest mistakes were made when we yielded to programmed fear, mob rule anger and lust for power over others – instead of investing, in preserving love through music and dance, protecting all children with the drama of reason and defending peace on earth, peacefully.
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