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HARD TRUTH

by Sally Herrin
by Sally Herrin

The better angels of America seem to have awakened and the

Worst — Four More Years — has been averted. This time.

Hard Truth 1: Our national night- sure he intends to do all he can to much that can and must be done—
mare is far from over. Countries further part out the resources of the beginning with sound pandemic
which once get cozy with a right- country to hand over to unfettered policy, including so-called stimulus
wing demagogue are often in for capitalism. money to aid disaster-stricken
a bumpy ride over the following Do not expect too much from Americans, and restarting—indeed,
decades. Being as we are now a Biden Administration, O best doubling down upon—U.S. partici-
over our touching but misguided Beloved… nor yet too little. All the pation in the Paris Climate Accords.
belief in ‘American exceptionalism’ rest of my years on Earth will not Before it all blows by, please
(RIGHT?), that means us. Trump see undone all the harms the Trump take note of Big Pharma’s role in
can do a lot of mischief between years have wrecked upon our de- national events. Pfizer withheld
now and mid-January, and I am mocracy, but there is hope now and news of its vaccine until after the
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