Thang Nguyen 555

Climate change and pocket change, racial discrimination and vaccination, voter suppression and voter turn-out, all have a common denominator: up to us.

We can create the problems then solve them (like Charlie Chaplin the window fixer) or we can pro-actively solve them (by education and re-boosting infrastructure).

21st-century problems demand a 21st-century playbook.

Can’t bring the Chinese back to build the railroad.

Can’t ship the African slaves over to expand the plantation.

Even G W Bush comes out with “Out of many, one” to plead the case for a continuing Afghan surge (unintended objective of the 2-decade long war).

I remember he talked about “axis of Evil”….Now, the Evil is men in beard who ride donkeys.

(Nobody dares to touch the Saudi, who used to ride camels themselves).

21st-century.

Make-over.

Last becomes first, and vice versa.

Neck on knee?

People need to live out the rest of their miserable lives (preferably, better and more “humane” then monkeys in the lab).

In my neighborhood, couples were seen walking their dogs more often than those with children.

What’s going on? Up to us.

In Ausin, you either wash your car via drive-through at 7/11, or on Lamar, hand-washed by immigrants from S America.

No other choices.

Such is the State of the Union. Not good.

The GOP will have their turn. But it needs to soul-search. What’s the core competency, competitive edge?

What are the political philosophy? Policies? (Axis of Evil? or Nation building?)

Come on!

Drink up the tea, and be a party.

Grow some spine. Get rid off some busy bodies, who buy time until the next fund-raising cycle.

I got to go. But deep down, I sense that many of the mega problems can be and will be solved. By all of us, in empathy and collaboration.

Nothing we can’t do when we have a gun against our head. That gun (or knee), takes on new, albeit not too urgent forms as I mentioned: climate change, pandemic avert (via vaccination), racial and voter inequity.

Underneath them all, a common denominator: our ingenuity and determination to leave behind a much better world.