It has been a tough week.
It is time to take care of ourselves, our families, our communities.
It is not time to search the instant analyses for the fatal flaw or the magic solution. Give it time.
As we learn in the days and weeks ahead what has happened we can learn to adapt and again meet the challenge:
NETCo Dems stand for Democracy
"Our task is to make our nation free and fair, just and strong, noble and whole. And this work is the work of democracy — the work of this generation. It is the work of our time, for all time."
President Joe Biden, Sep 1, 2020
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/09/01/
remarks-by-president-bidenon-the-continued-battle-for-the-soul-of-the-nation/
"All people share an inherent right and irrepressible desire to live in freedom and make decisions about their own lives. As historical and more recent events have shown, denial of this basic truth leads inevitably to injustice, conflict, and suffering.
"Democracy is the best form of government for ensuring peace, prosperity, sustainable development, and human progress because it is rooted in a recognition of human rights and allows for the orderly reconciliation of competing views and interests. It is a political system based on the free consent of the governed, and it is maintained through a network of mutually reinforcing structures, in which those exercising power are subject to checks both within and outside the state—from independent courts, an independent press, and all the elements of a diverse and active civil society."