We haven't really grown up if we fail to address our fears, stop name calling and get what's good from the past

People who like to see themselves as Progressive got a huge shock when the strangest of Presidents got elected in November this year .
 No Surprise to thoughtful historians like Brecht, Orwell and Ferguson
This adjustment should not be a surprise to any thinking person because the slack old hopefuls and dilatants are always at risk of dreaming as a consequence of their comfortable new rich incumbencies. The tax takers are in majority and it's the tax takers who want things to keep going their ways.  The poor need not be left out because the really big tax takers have lost.  You can justify anything with good intention, but if it's just talk and nothing that works (like dependency and jobs not careers, experimentation without precision and discipline) it's out the door, and rightly so. 
Dumb ,half-baked or Smart -- its our choice ?
And yes, as Ferguson points out so well, Trump's ascendancy is risky because we are always at war . And whether it's a hot war inside or a cold war outside , we can still achieve things if we are open and not stupid, but alert and vigilant.  

Many of the new hopefuls come with concrete real world visons, and real world science in practice . This is a needed push back against the deadening dependencies ( and cynicism)  of recent decades; too much half baked untested incompetence and experimentation that does nothing to enliven the minds and hearts and actions of our young people .that failure to launch is in itself a very serious failure of my generation.
 
These strong reality checks have come before, and are needed to stop idealism, inexperience, patronizing and down right incompetence and fear from substituting for real world science learning , mentoring and inspiration. There are too many degrees and incentives offered and not enough on ground learning and the discipline of mentoring ....and our  Regions know this; The country is being starved 
We will not get competency through the screen. The key Conservation that works will not come with tyrants parenting us in oikonomia  or with  rough reactionary wannabe ideas of bullying or incentivizing.  Our resource rich and creative young people need inspiration . 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGsz4kh2ZWM&t=4713s  +

We are not really at war till we start laughing at ourselves

  In the week before the USA elections  ( November 1 2024 ) that place and ours has never seemed more divided. 

Maybe we are a bit lost for options?
Maybe we just don't want to face the face that we have failed and don't want to see ourselves as  we really are . 

https://www.konstantinkisin.com/p/my-shocking-report-from-inside-trumps

We are not at war still we stop talking

 In the week before the USA elections  ( November 1 2024 ) that place and ours has never seemed more divided 
Maybe nothings changed? 
Maybe we are a bit lost for options?
A great observer of previous wars said this 

"Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.
Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith.
Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love.

No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as it is from our standpoint.
Therefore we must be saved by the final form of love which is forgiveness.  
—Reinhold Niebuhr, The Irony of American History