This writer is not sure of the value of starting a powerful club who won’t have you as a member. And yet that is the apparently strategy of our current leader who took the second most powerful nation in the world and paired it with two lesser powers thus creating perhaps the most powerful alliance in modern history. Our ‘Great Again’ strategy had a flaw in that we weren’t invited to the grand opening of the new World Order. In the adolescent world such a deliberate snub would inspire rage and recrimination. Oh wait! . . . it just did. 

If becoming great again means pulling out of the world order we are well on our way. The problem is, great as we are, our previous Presidents took history and the interconnected nature of the world and nations into account as they worked toward a balance of power aspiring toward a world peace. In this term we have created powerful enemies and set friends and allies on fire that we will be needing in the future. As powerful a nation as we are, now that we are divided and isolated, we are not so great, but rather vulnerable in a way we haven’t seen since the 19th century. Being liberal or conservative will soon not matter if we continue to insist on being our own worst enemy. 

A Modest Proposal for Good

Our President must not take his role personally because he is quintessentially only a public figure. If we insist on tearing ourselves as a nation asunder, then the game is over. Our grand children and great grandchildren may have to learn a new language. Good might be pulling up short and fast and sending a message across lines in the mid term elections that this country is more important than some of the soon-to-be-ridiculous notions that are keeping us divided right now. Thanks to our new greatness we have to operate in a world where our dominate power has been rendered past tense. Good is recognizing we need new friends much more than we need new enemies.