Too many people have a romantic notion of 'resetting' our government. Status quo is not the creation of a select few politicians. It's the net of pushes and pulls of millions upon millions of interconnected interests in the nation. Wisdom lies in pursuing stepwise refinements.
Big moral battles of mankind have already been fought and mostly won in the United States and most other liberal free market democracies. We should strive to keep the gains and build upon them, not gratuitously recast every pet peeve as 'civil rights issue of our time' and such.
For our entire history, mankind has strived hard to cope with problems of survival, scarcity, and calamities of all kinds. Nothing in our history and evolution has trained us to deal with problems of plenty and unprecedented successes all around us. No wonder we are disoriented.
Developing effective and wholesome ways to build upon our successes and stay sharp, alert, and well nourished in body, mind, and soul, in the face of unprecedented prosperity at the national level is an enormous new challenge. It requires thinking and skills of a whole new kind.
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