America's resiliency trumping Washington gridlock, July 28, 2019
- William F. B. O'Reilly
- Jul 28, 2019
- 1 min read
Maybe it’s just me.
But everywhere I go these days, I’m running into people — individual Americans — seeking local solutions to the anxieties of our era.
How wonderfully old school.
In the last few weeks I’ve been in Atlanta, Virginia, Washington, New Hampshire and in upstate and downstate New York listening to the same basic conversation: What can we do — what can I do — to get the America we knew back on track right here in my neighborhood? I’ve heard it in meetings, on a lunch line at a summer camp parent weekend, at an airport lounge, in a coffee shop, on a subway car . . . Often it comes from complete strangers.
These conversations mercifully aren’t about President Donald Trump or Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her “squad” or former special counsel Robert Mueller. They are only about politics in the sense that U.S. politics and Washington politicians are no longer considered dependable vehicles to get things done by those doing the talking and listening.
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