Yes, I had seen your reply earlier and agree. Bleak is the only word to describe things at the moment.
The only thing that gives me hope at the moment is a basic understanding of human nature. The opposition has their people unified for a moment because they are all fighting for the same thing. When they get it, the infighting will begin. Divisions will multiply until their very existence gets relegated to the back ground.
This would take time. Certainly couldn’t happen in our lifetime, except by divine intervention. I won’t lie! I’ve prayed hard for that!
As you have pointed out, even the long game is fraught with negatives.
WI is towing the line and I am encouraged by that...but they have a long hard road ahead and their very lives are at stake.
I can’t give up, though...evil is evil, no matter what form, and I don’t like it.
Mitch Daniels did it a couple of years ago and I hope we can move toward reform here in California.
The good mayor of San Jose, Chuck Reed, made a compelling case for change and the Firefighters accepted less pay and a few other things.
They got theirs slowly, we will get ours the same way.