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Well said, Bob! I too am an incurable optimist and believe Winston Churchill was right when he said Americans will eventually do the right thing after they have tried everything else. We will learn shortly if he is right. However, it is to the country’s ever lasting shame that it permitted the insurrectionist criminal to run again for president.

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Nov 5Liked by Robert Mann

Just the message I needed today….sober but encouraging. We can’t give up or give in. God bless America.

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Thanks, Bob. A great and profound message. For many days after the 2016 election I woke up each morning in disbelief our country could have elected such a person. I won't have that problem if it recurs in 2024. I will, however, lose most of the optimism I might still have that our country is capable of unification. I hope you are right and I have no intention of giving up. However. I think about Rwanda almost every day - a nightmare that was real - and I wonder how anybody sentient can fail to see what it represented and how absolutely horrible it was that neighbors could slaughter neighbors simply because they were of a different tribe. I'm not saying that could happen here, but the seeds are planted. We are already distancing ourselves from each other based on our different realities. We must hope and pray distancing does not morph into widespread overt aggression. Sure, like schoolyard fights, we could come out better on the other end, but would it be worth it? I'm going to accept the results of the election, no matter what, but I am not going to change who I am.

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