Worth the time to read and process… The Great Work (to invoke Thomas Berry here) ahead of us is daunting. Still, we have the opportunity to create something where human and the more-than-human are encouraged not only to survive but to thrive (together), ultimately, if we only speak up…
So yes, the fights over SNAP, ACA subsidies, and shutdowns matter — but they’re symptoms, not causes. You don’t get 40 million people needing food aid and 100 million drowning in medical debt because of one bad president or one unlucky decade. You get there because the institutions that were supposed to protect the public spent decades serving somebody else.
Excellent perspective. I was just thinking about the Supreme Court, and some of these vary things.
Yep… I think this hits the nail on the head in so many ways. It’s a hard truth for ‘both sides’ and maybe that’s the point we need to get out of all of this… there’s only really ‘one side’ that we should be focused on as we live with the reckoning of the last 50 years of judicial and congressional actions.