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Donald’s Ship Needs Sinking— to the Bottom!
Rescue is needed for passengers and possibly some of the crew but only after confessions of guilt and reformations — no verbal pledges please.
The moment has come for a change. Not so much a revolution as an adjustment to reality. But, nothing much can be built until the debris is cleared away. The old hands on deck must go and this was prompted by Corona as she exposed what is not working in America. A change in the White House and Senate will be a starting place.
I asked a work colleague a few years back “Why are many people so against Barack Obama?” His answer was “because he is a black man”. I dismissed this at the time thinking — “impossible”. Now, I don’t think that is impossible. It kind of explains the pattern of much that has happened. Obama was bright, successful — and liked by a majority. That placed some into a seemingly impossible position.
It reminded me of something incidental in my small town in New Zealand (home of equality, at least in the 1970's) where fancy friends of mine felt slighted when the local butcher bought himself and his big family the latest Jaguar XJ12 — dark red and a truly magnificent machine. To my friends it would have been perfectly OK if it had been a medium size Ford — but not a big Jaguar! This was notching above them, and a public display at that. It apparently threatened the…
