Thank you for a great response, Alan.

I think or respond in analogies quite often. It’s how my mind puts concepts together. If we as a people see a mountain of small rocks and look at the task of moving it, it seems overwhelming. If each of us took and moved one of them, it short order, the mountain will have been shifted.

No one person has to change it all. Where to start? Simply by demanding that we each do something different or better that moves the conversation forward.

When people insist that there’s black and white, then they will also focus on democrat and republican, rich and poor and we’ll be endlessly caught up in antagonism.

America’s systems seems “flawed” because it’s not working well at all. But a car engine that has forgone any maintenance for 200,000 miles is a miracle to simply turn over. Our engine of government has been neglected and co-opted by those who use it as a personal cash register. That has to change as well.

One last point, the insidious nature of the slogan, Make America Great Again, is that a large segment of the population believed it no longer was. That”admission” in their own minds, lifted all restraints and opened the door to hatred as a means of change.

We created this mess, so we’ll have to fix it.

Thanks again for stopping by and reading this. See you again soon.