New Year’s Resolutions for a Better America

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Entering the new year, it is traditional to set goals and pronounce resolutions to improve ourselves and our lot in life during the coming 12 months.

Although these resolutions are more often honored in their breach than their fulfillment, they are nonetheless a useful tool to focus our attention on our weak points, whether we have the fortitude to correct them or not.

Unfortunately, the people who could use the most improvement are the least likely to take the time to do a moral (or any other) inventory. That goes for the worst among us (the sexual predators, drug dealers, gang members, thugs, and looters) as well as the most elevated – our elite politicians, Wall Street wizards, talking heads and corporate raiders. The former have no capacity for self-reflection; the latter have, in their estimation, no need for it.

And so, as a nation, we plod forward with little hope for improvement, and no expectation that the coming year will be any better than the dismal one we just escaped. No wonder that current polling shows as much as 70% of Americans think we are headed in the wrong direction.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/01/02/new_years_resolutions_for_a_better_america_148674.html