Lessons I Hope We've Learned Over the Decades, 2021 Edition
Let’s review what we’ve learned as we face 2021. The moveable middle is shrinking. This is both good and bad news. It means that more people are sympathetic with causes for equality, while it also means that others are stuck in the extremist right-wing and more immovable. We thus must recognize that there are some we cannot reach and that it’s not our fault or personal responsibility when we don’t. For most of these, the best we can do is marginalize them societally by laws and practices that support the world as we want it to be and live our lives as models of what should be. For many nice people that’s a hard lesson to accept. It also means that we need to encourage and strengthen those who are already with us. As the old preacher said, “We’ve got to preach to the choir because so many of them aren’t singing.” There is little need to listen more closely to right-wingers (especially members of the previous president’s cult). It is more often a waste of time that keeps us from doin