We don’t agree on what the biggest problems are, we don’t agree on the causes of our problems, and we don’t agree on how to work toward solutions on even those issues we all agree are problems. So what on earth can possibly unite us?
Emotions. We all love our country. We want to be proud of our country. We are, all of us, at times angry and frustrated, deeply saddened and impatient (with one another), wanting to be hopeful and feeling surges of hope, only to have it dashed once again. We Americans are all human beings with the same human emotions.
What unites us, though – the confusing stew of emotions – is also what divides us, because our emotions, too often, have different (you should excuse the term) triggers. It's enough to make a stone weep.
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What divides us is Trumpism. One of his loyal following is the Evangelical people. When he had the police clear a way through the croud, he stood in front of a church and misquoted the bible.
Friend asked me why he didn't go in. I suggested he quit that long ago, because every time he entered the candles flickered out. He and his minions make daily threats against his enemies
and thousands of poll workers, judges, teachers are bombarded constantly with ugly threats. For what? General Miley, his first
assistant, considered him the most damaged person he ever worked with. The bully personality has been around a long time, but rationally, they became isolated. Now the opposite happens. Not sure if the stones are weeping, but betcha they are rolling over in their river bed. This rant makes me feel better, makes up for the kidney stone episode (which sent me to the ER
appropriately during the Watergate investigation)
ÉCRASEZ L'INFÂME - Voltaire
Bob, I'm really sorry about kidney stone trouble! My husband had that. Have you had parathyroid glands checked?
That was a night in the hospital in Mpls in 1973. Only other night in hospital was 1979 in Idaho for walking pneumonia, so I'm a lucky old guy. Been on low dose thyroid pills for years, but finally got diagnosed with a-fib and the bevy of pills that come with that. Can't complain. (except for the state of the union, of course)
Thyroid and parathyroid very different, close only in position, not function, but I'm glad the kidney stone problem did not persist! Good to know you are taking care of that heart, Bob!
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