I’m rebranding this newsletter as Peril & Possibility. Because although the news is full of peril, it’s worth keeping in mind the possibility that the United States was, is and always will be a progressive country.
The thing about progress is that it’s full of peril. We are always going down the wrong road before we realize it and have to back out and try another one. People who label themselves progressive, as I kinda do, are among the worst offenders, so cocksure are we of our moral authority and our innate calling to preach to those whose views we find offensive. We kinda got ourselves into this mess with that stuff. We pissed off a lot of people, including me.
Oh well.
Don’t despair. There’s gotta be a way out of this. We’ll figure something out. As the great Joe Namath once said, “I guarantee it.”