There are things we cannot admit to ourselves. Americans elected Donald Trump. He was neither deceptive nor cunning. His vanity and self-centered will was on full display. His unofficial campaign slogan could have been, “What you see is what you get.” He surprised no one. We surprised ourselves. We have it well-off in America when compared to all but a few smaller and more homogeneous countries. Our rich are richer and our poor are better off than many other places on Earth. Our standard of living, economically speaking, is still the envy of billions. Yet, we see ourselves as broken, and we blame each other at the same time we look to those we blame for solutions. Some of us are proof that having is never as powerful as wanting, and others are proof that we must be careful what we wish for. Of course, none of this makes any sense to us. That is the dilemma of our fate. Many outside our fishbowl see a paradox or a parable - a gr...
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