How do we break through this divisive trance? In earlier Posts we have looked at the difference between the extremist and the true radical. The point was the extremist plays the shallow ends of the political spectrum. The true sense radical goes off the linear right/left spectrum and deeper in the human considerations of need.  The true sense radical finds the next level priorities to satisfy human need, while the the extremist goes to war over the scraps left on the surface of the table.  The Good Decision Project is about satisfying human needs from the inside out starting with the individual while faithfully integrating private consideration with community and public needs.

As we watch the new administration start to crack and break down even before inauguration, it will be easy for us to be distracted.  They seem to be setting up to be an outrage factory and whatever comes next and how we respond mustn’t be more of the same from these past few years.  To this observer it appears we have a group of billionaires in internal conflict over how to break up families and deport millions of workers who they concurrently rely on as a less expensive labor force to buttress their billions in income. This was pathetically predictable. There is no such thing as a good decision when one lives an absolute contradiction without regrets or a glance backwards.  To salvage and sustain what is good about this country we need to go deeper and not be distracted. 

To avoid fatal distraction one must decide on a focus and to focus in this climate one must be a True Sense Radical.  What are the needs, that if met, would prepare and allow this country to recommit to E pluribus unum (out of many one)?  Not being shy I will propose we need three priorities in this order upon which good decisions can be made: (1) physically and mentally healthy children, (2) close communities of adults that play and pay together, and (3) free and responsible public expression in a safe, respectful, cheerful Republic.  This current bitter, divisive approach to private and public life gets us nowhere but bad. Stay tuned as this is a sharp corner for a big long haul truck to turn.