To the editor:
“And never again allow a loathsome wannabe king to tyrannize America and the world.” — Robert Reich
Robert Reich, if there is any chance that you are reading this, thank you for your words that help encourage us to work toward making America humane again. I watched several episodes of “West Wing” last night thinking I might feel encouraged by the powerful writing and acting and filming, and instead I was reminded that when I watched a few episodes years and years ago, I felt not encouraged but jittery, anxious, in my disappointment that our presidents can never actually walk on the paths that they may, in some cases, wish to walk, the paths to create an enlightened America.
That is an impossibility, or almost an impossibility, and for many of our presidents, not even a modus operandi, not even a single neuron in their brains devoted to improvement, to wisdom, to being good guides. The system as it exists is a wall, crumbling a little every so often, but a wall.
Robert Reich, as you have written, the wall crumbles, but we have the capacity to take it down fully, to build instead a green park, the full flowering of our democracy, that refreshes everyone, healing the wounds inflicted on us by this foul and “loathsome wannabe king.”
Thank you for being the engine of our possibilities.
Linda Kaye-Moses
Pittsfield
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