Our national intelligence took a hit yesterday as the majority of we Americans could not wisely distinguish the forest for the trees. Instead of us coming together to cure the ails of our economic, social and political inequalities, most of us choose to keep them in an unequal state. I know in my heart that if we had been able to comprehensively understand what the stakes were yesterday in our voting we would have made a different choice. this is why I am going after our national intelligence with a brusque attitude. I cannot tip toe around the fact that our citizenry has been failed in educational matters and our highest court has lost all effectiveness as to being an objective defender of our right to evolve and improve. The lack of respect for the dignity of all of our citizenry to have an equal share in the duties and successes of our great nation has been exposed. We are not the enlightened nation most of us would think were are. Instead we have not progressed in our understandings of new information and have actually stopped informing ourselves in truthful and honest ways. We allow for disinformation to flow from the fourth estate as if it is sacred. We have quit on the morality of care and compassion we should be exalting instead of demeaning. Most brutish, we have quit on the revolutionary idea that a society is only as strong as it's weakest link. Yesterday served as a warning to those of us who are left standing in the ashes of a progressive modernity. Our civilization has gone from 45 years ago from being the first to land a man on the moon to now questioning the idea of even leaving Earth to explore our Universe. We have regressed instead of progressed. For that I am sorry to say our generation has lost its way and hopefully we will not deter our children from desiring to correct our failures while having to shoulder a heavier burden to create a better American society.
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