Healing From the Center Out

This is how he put it last week, as he related to the isolating, desolating casualties of Covid19: “Alone in a hospital room, alone in a nursing home, no family, no friends, no loved ones beside them in those final moments, and it haunts so many of the surviving families, families who were never given a chance to say goodbye. I, and many of you know, what loss feels like when you lose someone you love, you feel that deep black hole opening up on your chest and you feel like you’re being swallowed into it.”

I have felt that way for four years now. What I grieve is an idea of America that is decent, generous, big-hearted, and pragmatic, where the identity of a citizen, unqualified, unhyphenated, is the only identity you need. I miss a public discourse where a president takes responsibility even for things beyond his full control, where the fault-lines of history are not mined for ammunition but for greater understanding, where, in Biden’s words, we can once again see the dignity in each other. I am not a fool, and know how hard this will be.

ABSOLUTELY eloquent....the vast void in my heart HAS TO HEAL....if not now,WHEN? I suppose
the WHOLE of America is aching for such a thing to happen.....

I think I know what Andrew Sullivan was smoking. What about you, SC?

Did Sullivan and you forget: " "If you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump, then you ain't black," Biden said Friday morning during an appearance on The Breakfast Club."

Is this resisting tribalism?

ramage wrote: I think I know what Andrew Sullivan was smoking. What about you, SC?

Did Sullivan and you forget: " "If you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump, then you ain't black," Biden said Friday morning during an appearance on The Breakfast Club."

Is this resisting tribalism?

Good reply. The Left claims Biden is the decent, truthful candidate but if you question him or say he is lying, he replies with a snarl. He is the man who tells one state he will ban fracking, but another state that he will not. His Twitter account is empty platitudes typed up by staff. I just don't feel like Biden is in control of his own campaign. An empty shell to be propped up and then they put an early lid on his campaign events so they can recharge his batteries.

ramage wrote: I think I know what Andrew Sullivan was smoking.

I have to agree. His campaign consisted of orange man bad. You do not have to go far to see his minions echo that. Not just here but across a large segment of the left of center spectrum.

ScienceChic wrote: Vote against tribalism, identity politics, divisiveness, extremism and Wokeness. Vote FOR a return to civility, compromise, decency, dignity, empathy, competency, and healing.

I agree, but we should also be voting against a corruption in our government, from influence peddling to the FBI and DOJ trying to take out a duly elected president for partisan reasons. I don't care nearly as much about feelings as I do about making sure the people who have the most power don't have an opportunity to use that power for corrupt purposes. The corrupt Russia hoax will go down in history as being worse than Watergate and our news media will be remembered as being instrumental and directly responsible for supporting that corruption for 3 years.

Rick wrote:

ScienceChic wrote: Vote against tribalism, identity politics, divisiveness, extremism and Wokeness. Vote FOR a return to civility, compromise, decency, dignity, empathy, competency, and healing.

I agree, but we should also be voting against a corruption in our government, from influence peddling to the FBI and DOJ trying to take out a duly elected president for partisan reasons. I don't care nearly as much about feelings as I do about making sure the people who have the most power don't have an opportunity to use that power for corrupt purposes. The corrupt Russia hoax will go down in history as being worse than Watergate and our news media will be remembered as being instrumental and directly responsible for supporting that corruption for 3 years.

BOLDED.....that is s-o-o rich with IRONY.....TRUMP is the sum total of corruption.

homeagain wrote:

Rick wrote:

ScienceChic wrote: Vote against tribalism, identity politics, divisiveness, extremism and Wokeness. Vote FOR a return to civility, compromise, decency, dignity, empathy, competency, and healing.

I agree, but we should also be voting against a corruption in our government, from influence peddling to the FBI and DOJ trying to take out a duly elected president for partisan reasons. I don't care nearly as much about feelings as I do about making sure the people who have the most power don't have an opportunity to use that power for corrupt purposes. The corrupt Russia hoax will go down in history as being worse than Watergate and our news media will be remembered as being instrumental and directly responsible for supporting that corruption for 3 years.

BOLDED.....that is s-o-o rich with IRONY.....TRUMP is the sum total of corruption.

LOL, Trump has had only four years to be corrupt. Biden has had over forty years to practice corruption and even farmed it out to his brother who was awarded a no-bid housing contract even though he had no experience in that field. And son Hunter, who after being given a job in the military without going to boot camp or officer candidate school was made an officer. OF course his drug use got him booted out. Normally that would have consisted of a court martial but because his dad was the Vice President, he only got a general discharge. Corruption is a Biden family value.