Yes, the undertaking is almost unimaginable. But, just as so many communities have recovered from devastating natural disasters, this nation will recover from the man-made disaster of Christian Nationalism, meets White Supremacy, meets Cult of Trump, meets insatiable greed.
The thing is, the system is broken. It has been. We have a bigger undertaking ahead than simply repairing the MAGA/Project 2025 damage. Piketty laid out how destabilizing our increasingly obscene concentration of wealth is --- a great "sucking sound" that is the inevitable result of capital growing at a faster rate than the broader economy. Absent counter-forces, like progressive taxation on wealth and income, and higher rates on capital gains than wages, and serious redistribution of taxes collected through policies like a Piketty-style "Inheritance for All," we have been heading toward a breaking point of some kind for a very, very long time.
I don't have any sort of clear vision of how we heal, but I don't have a clear vision of how a great bridge or skyscraper gets built either. From the outside, it seems almost like magic. The way various skills, materials, laborers, designers, come together and piece-by-piece, the structure comes into being.
One thing I do know is that terrible times can usher in transformative change. I have faith that more Americans will reconnect, or connect anew, with aspirations and values of global citizenship -- -- values like human-rights, rule of law, religious freedom, self-governance, and economic justice, and the thinking underlying those values, among them rationality, compassion as a moral imperative, and scientific inquiry.
So many of us are already there. We are starting with a stronger base than I think we may realize.
In the meantime, all we can each do is our little bit of good, where we are.
"Do your little bit of good where you are; it is those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world."
-- Desmond Tutu
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