In light of the recent election debacle, Congressional Republicans vow to destroy 84 years of New Deal / Great Society economic and social justice progress by pulling up the safety net ladder on Medicare and the Affordable Care Act.
The only solace I can offer my fellow disillusioned progressives before I head for the bunker lies within the wisdom of John Kenneth Galbraith :
” There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose … The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness … In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.”
And, years from now, when my grandchildren ask me what I did during the Trump Era, I will look them in the eye and say : ” I survived.”
Fred Rich LaRiccia
