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This Moment
It’s time to address how we ended up here.
For the last four years we have endured the unremitting chaotic stress of the Trump presidency. With every new day, there has been a new scandal, and the 1,460 days of the turmoil dividing the nation as a megalomaniac consumed as much attention as he could from the Americans and the world, has taken its toll. Trump has exposed and metastasized the disease that has been infecting the soul of the country for decades, yet a diagnosis with a path for recovery still hasn’t been addressed.
We have a problem and denial won’t make it go away. Embedded in the foundational structures upholding our culture, government, and values, is the belief the next generations shouldn’t have it any easier than we did, and if we could overcome our adversities, everyone else should. We’ve stopped progressing, and the treadmill we’ve been sprinting on has made us miserable, but we don’t want to fix it, we just want everyone to suffer as much as we have. We aren’t happy and we don’t want anyone else to be, but it’s not entirely our fault. Our government has us hogtied to a socioeconomic system facilitating the greatest transfer of wealth we’ve ever seen.
Since 1979 the wealth accrued from wages has been stagnant, yet gross domestic product (GDP) has increased. The concentration of wealth from the corporations’ historically high…
