You are now 250 years old. May you survive for another 250 or more years.
When I listen to news, I feel a need to write about our current situation. I feel it is my responsibility to write, calling anyone who reads to action. However, it takes so much energy to write and revise, then to get the written word onto the website (I’m not a Ludite, but technology
and I live in different worlds). At eighty-five, I’m tired; I have little energy.
As I write, I’m listening to the program, “We the People * 250,” on MSNOW. It has been one of hope, bringing me at time to tears of gratitude for what is possible. I have hope that we can work to heal the divisions we now face. We have made so much progress since 1776 to improve the lot of all people. Our progress has been gradual, and it hasn’t reached the ideals outlined in the Declaration of Independence. As an aside, on the program I’m listening to, Rachel Maddow read some reactions to a reading of the complete Declaration of Independence. The reactions accused the station of attacking the president.
We need desperately to improve our Constitution to balance more effectively our executive branch of government, perhaps even on state and local levels nationwide. We need to elect congressional and senatorial candidates who will act to reform the supreme court and the executive branch. The ethics currently called for need to be codified with law, not merely suggested. They need to apply to all office holders, even the highest. No one should be presumed to be above the law.
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