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I had a recent experience with a bunch of Zoomers. They had serious knowledge gaps that reflected the civics and history classes they never got. It was, at most, a minimal handicap.

When I mentioned something, their phones would whip up, they'd start typing, and each would read off something significant about whatever I'd mentioned. By the time the phones went down, they had decent comprehension and usually I'd learned something new.

From what I saw, we don't need to worry about the Zoomers.

To me, there's a different, HUGE demographic out there that we are ignoring. I travel a lot thru the white part of America, and when I can, I'll pose these five goals to anyone willing to talk. Most people I speak to don't vote, and the rest are split 50/50, but almost everyone agrees with my five goals, which are nothing but Bernie's platform with the details removed.

First, US laws must apply the same way to everyone.

Second, Government should not tell people how to live

Third, I only want my tax dollars spent where I save money or make money.

Fourth, We need taxation, education, and health care systems that a normal person can understand.

Fifth: Every kid that qualifies for trade school, apprenticeship, or college should be able to go.

These are Progressive goals, with the details boiled off the bones. I rarely hear disagreement.

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Darkness of the Tomb OR Darkness of the Womb?

Thanks Thom for this hopeful perspective. One of the speakers at a recent Bioneers Conference addressed her potential for a brigher future:

America is battling for its soul. There’s a darkness over the country that can be characterized by gloom or hope: “Is this the darkness of the tomb – or the darkness of the womb?”

“Although we’ve mounted a powerful resistance to tyranny, injustice and violence during the Trump era, with 202[2] in sight, we need more than resistance. We need to birth a new America. The extraordinarily passionate and effective civil rights attorney, faith leader and activist Valarie Kaur shares why she’s convinced that what our times demand is Revolutionary Love. It’s an orientation to life and our movements that harnesses all of the body’s emotions—grief, rage, and joy—and calls us to our highest bravery. We need to reclaim love as a form of sweet labor—fierce, demanding, and life-giving —and draw from the wisdom of the midwife: when in labor, breathe and push!"

We can't let the oligarchs bury our democratic experiment. We must bury them!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIrl_Ob0jvg, 2019 Bioneers conference.

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