A few ideas on the subject of making America truly great again:
I'm
going to start by saying something controversial; America was great in
the 60's. That is not to say that everything was great then but we were
at a cusp. One similar to the cusp that founded out nation, one of
revolution.
It was a time when activism and changing the
status quo defined us. A time when we challenged ourselves as a nation
to do things that had never been done before. Enacting civil rights,
expanding women's rights, challenging ourselves to go where no one had
gone before and stepping foot on the moon.
We have taken
leaps for humankind since then but we have been taking steps back
recently as well. The challenges are now coming from those segments who
embrace the status quo of the 60's instead of those who rose to defy it.
The concept of change now means regression back to the ideas that were
fought against in the first place.
The revolution to progress
our society into true equality has become a dystopian revolution of
supression. The advances our country made are under assault.
The
spirit of activism that defined the 60's and even the early 70"s needs
to be reignited in a way that can take us through the current crisis.
The 60's gave our nation political will. The early 70's showed us how to
use that will to remove from power those who would abuse their
position.
Let's take a lesson from history and build that political will again.
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