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Stuart Attewell (Paris, Fr)'s avatar

Unfortunately, going back to the way we were is hardly an inspiring vision for the future....after the initial relief of surmounting and restructuring the chaos wears off. In 6 months time, when the Covid panic subsides, we are going to need something a little more stirring to draw the people together and get them to support a common "American Dream".

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Cathy Learoyd (Texas)'s avatar

That's one thing I hated about MAGA. No, I didn't want to go back when women were treated as second class citizens or having to break the glass ceiling again or having to prove that "woman" and "engineer" were not mutually exclusive stereotypes. No, it is time to go forward and embrace the future and the technology revolution, a new economic system, a new responsibility to sustainability, a new era of social justice for all. Our education systems are wholly inadequate and underfunded for the future world ... or the present on for that matter. The Q-bists are ignorant and uneducated, dangerously so. Most of our elected officials can't think beyond the political calculation of the next election and have no ethical convictions pass the moment it is useful. Will we find some visionary leadership or will we have to go through a frightful time of upheaval before we're really to address the inevitable changes and either make a new, more positive world order or wither on the vine and see America fall like Rome.

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