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In reply to the discussion: Robert Redford, Screen Idol Turned Director and Activist, Dies at 89 [View all]lostincalifornia
(4,416 posts)""Tonight, for the first time I can remember, I feel out of place in the country I was born into and the citizenship Ive loved my whole life. For weeks Ive watched with sadness as our civil servants have failed us, turning toward bigotry, mean-spiritedness and mockery as the now-normal tools of the trade.
How can we expect the next generation to step up and serve, to be interested in public life, and to aspire to get involved when all we show them is how to spar, attack and destroy each other?
Its hard to blame young people for calling us out, and pointing to our conflicts between the values we declare, and those we stand behind only when its convenient to partisanship. Many people are rightly calling it a damn mess.
But I want to encourage you to dig deep for hope and civility right now -- to try to make connections with people you disagree with, to be better than our politicians.
We dont have to share the same motivations to want the same outcomes. Lets focus on each other, and strengthening our communities, and reflecting on whats happening. Lets live in justice and respect and let others fight it out now to the bitter ends.
This is our country too. Every woman, man and child in it, our American future.
Weve got work to do."
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