[FRIAM] The year ahead

[Gary Schiltz]

What really worries me about the USA is how polarized the society there is,
so "mass resistance" will certainly, at least in the short term, increase
this polarization. From the standpoint of this on-the-fence liberal, it
would be nice to have the luxury to be able to see the "other side" as
being evil, so that I wouldn't care how they feel. The problem for me is
that I can't, since many of the people I grew up with, including nearly all
of my family, are part of that other side. And I see their point of view on
a lot of issues. No way could I ever support Trump, but a lot of good
people really do. And I don't know how to deal with this. I sure as hell
don't want to see another civil war, but sometimes I think the passions are
strong enough to instigate one.

On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 2:54 PM, Merle Lefkoff <merlelefkoff at gmail.com>
wrote:

> <https://www.facebook.com/bekah.wolf.5>
> Bekah Wolf <https://www.facebook.com/bekah.wolf.5>
> January 8 at 7:17am
>
> A year ago, an action against deportations:
> https://www.facebook.com/toni.arenstein/videos/10208311021676102/
>
> 2017 is going to be the year of mass resistance.  This is only thing that
> works now to overcome our slide toward endless war and increasing social
> injustice.  These protests and the larger social movements emerging all
> over the world are self-organizing systems with much to say about applied
> Complexity.   Visit our website:  ecosgathering.org.  Enough blah, blah.
> Time for action.
>
> --
> Merle Lefkoff, Ph.D.
> President, Center for Emergent Diplomacy
> Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
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