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Carol H Tucker
Passionate about knowledge management and organizational development, expert in loan servicing, virtual world denizen and community facilitator, and a DISNEY fan
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Monday musing....
Today is the 2nd day of the 12th week, the 19th day of the 3rd month, the 78th day of 2018 [with 280 shopping days until Christmas], and: - Act Happy Day
- Certified Nurses Day
- Client's Day
- Goddess of Fertility Day
- Earliest day on which Maundy Thursday can fall, while April 22 is the latest
- Let's Laugh Day
- National Chocolate Caramel Day
- National Poultry Day
- National Wellderly Day [AKA Well-Elderly Day] – the issue is, how do you define “old” or “elderly”? There is a vast difference based on the culture and economic conditions between countries.
- Swallows Return to San Juan Capistrano Day – but for the past couple of years, they haven’t shown up and there are conservation efforts to bring them back
There has been some discussions as a result of my speculation that something happened back in the late 90’s to cause the extreme polarization we are seeing today. Gerrymandering has been highlighted, and there is little doubt that both parties, when in power, were pretty blatant about trying to limit the impact of voters they perceived as likely to vote them out. The rise of the internet and social media, which enabled folks to live in their own news bubbles or echo chambers, where everything they heard or read was tainted with confirmation bias has also been brought up. And then there is the active interference of the Koch Brothers as those with the money decided they needed to arrange things to suit themselves [and all of the 1%] – and yes, I am citing the ballooning income inequity and influence of Calvinism as factors in the shredding of the social safety nets as the United States turns from a republic into an oligarchy.
So there was a huge influx of money into politics – but my question is, how did that money translate into a grass roots movement that has proven to be divisive in the extreme? And how do we heal the breech and start listening to the concerns and issues rather than yelling and posturing at each other? I get that the concerns of a person living in an urban area on the coast may not be the same as someone who lives on the land mid-country, but shouldn’t we have more in common than we are acknowledging these days? We all want peace, prosperity, and wellbeing -- I venture to say those goals pretty much look the same no matter where we live and work, neh? We don’t need to hold hands or sing Kumbaya [although that wouldn’t hurt, now would it?] but I think we do need to come together as a people and stop this vicious wrangling. Of course it would really help if we had leaders who actually lead instead of whining, something both DJT and HRC seem to indulge in with great regularity…. .
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