A Not So Distant Past

Before, always nostalgic

but the times are not all that different

I'm not satisfied

I am not satisfied with the progress

I'm not satisfied with rushing to electric vehicles when we are clearly not fully ready

I'm not satisfied with the environmental shaming of products sold when some of us are trying to get by

Why does every product need a background check

I am not satisfied

That what we have most in common is we are not satisfied

That we can agree on the problem, but never the means in tackling them

I am not satisfied that the same speech could be said today

Decades later

Everyone with the same dissatisfaction

Everyone with their own brand of fix

Slowing progress

Are the farmers courted the same?

Property tax remain?

What is that, that I heard of tax on unrealized gains most recently

Pay as you go only works for people not the government apparently.

Is teacher salary not discussed similarly?

Except now while instead of fixing education for underpreparing folks for the work force we damn them completely

Looking for new ways

While those debts remain for those trusting in the new old way

Why do we discuss schools and teacher's salary? or is it just higher education that's the problem?

But sure, "we can blame the 4 Republicans over any of the 8 Democrats."

Same blame game

I think we can do better

We may not be at a standstill, but if you can't see it move? ....And every number has a footnote?....

What candidate from what party is right for the time?

Same gamble

The question remains the same

"Who will allow for individual enterprise?", Best

Do we learn from history

Or one obstruction of justice traded for another

Because it's different, not a type

Will we let the tide run out and find ourselves chasing it

I don't know

But I am not satisfied

you can kill the sayer of words

There will always be another

Who can prove with action

We can do better

Because we have something to build on already


Sigh

The times are not all that different

But, they aren't quite the same

I am not satisfied

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