Keeping America (#4300)

      I had been asked many times in the recent past what would happen if trump was reelected. I never gave an answer because I never put any thought into the question. Kind of like when people ask me how I would like to die. I don't care to muse on things that are not of any value. So my ignoring of that question about trump being reelected has become moot just like him. What I did though was put thought to how we can improve our democratic base. To me we need to reconnect with rural voters. I have been putting out ways for us to do just that by forming think tank like commissions that actually listen to rural voters and help them help themselves.
     Problems going forward are in need of solutions not hypotheticals that are moot. This is how we evolve and energize progress. We all have problems and we all need to be heard about them. That is the purpose of our elected officials, to make our lives better while maintaining. Now working to expand our base should never take the front seat to taking care of our current base. But we do have the capacity to not only help our base who got us to this point but to also broaden our base by listening and creating solutions. We have the capacity once again to do more than one thing at a time. It isn't a one or the other thing, it is an all inclusive thing that all of us can marshal in concert with each other.
     We are an amazing species with memory, both long and short term. We have the ability to be logical with our reason, analysis, and concluding. But probably even more amazing is our ability to project our foresight out to imagine as a way to push the envelope on what is possible. There is nothing our species cannot do when we give ourselves the permission to try. These past 4 years have been a prime example of how we got in our own way and that we are no longer faced with that as our future we have to grasp our true manifest destiny of democracy in action. Equality, fairness, justice, and the pursuit of happiness for all is now before our feet and we need to take the steps forward to claim them.