We are an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. – Journalist Ron Suskind quoting unnamed George W. Bush advisor in a 2004 New Yorker essay. There it is again – the invocation for most of the 20th century. But – wait: aren’t we in the 21st century? Well, really – not yet in any way that matters. President Biden tried, through his big beautiful legislative acts (two of them), to nudge and cajole us into the early 21st century: beginning to commence to proceed to address the scientific reality of a climate that our created realities have been inadvertently changing for the worse, and the socioeconomic realities of an increasingly inequitable society that unbridled private capitalism has been advertently imposing on us all. But Biden’s acts no longer address our official realities. The new official reality, which wants to take us back to the good old days of the mid-20th century, includes a … Read More