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Nationcide

I heard from PrimeAryan DT that socialism kills nations. I thought it was fascist totalitarianism that killed nations, the lack of democratic social intelligence, social investment, non-violent communication, restorative, therapeutic win/win social justice. My grandparents, at least on my mother's side, who seemed ancient and fragile to me, often opined, "When you lose your health, you love everything." I don't know if they literally meant everything: your faith, your active hope, your love, your integrity, your egocentric voice, your hate, fear, anger, obsessive-compulsive wealth, despair, cynicism, narcissism, xenophobia. Probably they meant only everything good, all things social, Beauty fading into inconsequential, Truth into lack of significant meaning, Life into absence of future purpose. I was young and apparently immortal and could not hear their wiser warning. Now older, I find I have little more to add to health's imperative standard for resilient Wealth: much older and more integral, historically and multiculturally deeper than money, or even humanity; older, even, than verbal communication about healthy v pathological social-system experience. So, why isn't this same observation first on the list of every political party's platform, every faith community's regenerative mission statement? If we lose our democratic win/win social health, we've lost our greatest wealth. If we optimize our actively co-invested trust in global interdependent health, we regain our most resilient dreams of cooperatively-owned wealth, communal peace served up with personal integrity. "Make America Great Again" whether triumphantly declared as "mission accomplished" or somewhat more humble, errs in dreaming way too small When we could more robustly courageously compassionately choose "Make Earth Healthy Again" Which would, of course, also make America wealthy in all the democratic social positives, and none of the aristocratic anti-social negatives again? I guess sometimes healthy restorative justice is more like exploratory win/win polycultural justice, more pro-social green peace meadows than elitist monocultural grab and crab grass.

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