Donald and Corona — Let’s make them work for us

It’s an exciting time — no really! Donald is challenging the Hindenburg to a more spectacular finale and Corona is flying high and unconcerned. Awful you say, but not necessarily so — the balls are in the air and the opportunities abound. The bits of floating debris can be grabbed and shaped into new forms to better serve us all.

The calamities of Donald and Corona allow us to see clearly what is broken and what needs either fixing or trashing. Spotty healthcare and education, racism, poverty, and disparity of income have become stark realities in our faces and an attempt to return to “as before” maybe impossible or a poor choice.

We now have a chance at becoming happier and more productive. The unhappy duo of Donald and disease can be used to kick-off a new time — a different arrangement for us all.

Poor Donald is really not the problem — he just occupies it. The problem is us and we can fix it. Health care inadequacies, racism, elitism and left-behindism are concerns that divide us and generally make our lives miserable. But, disparity of income is the big bogey of them all — the one that spawns jealousy, hatred and rage — not ingredients of happiness and harmony. If this one big lopsidedness can be corrected, then many related ills can ease or even disappear.

We can have both prosperity and happiness — neither in abundance these days. Ask Marianne Williamson, happy people don’t beat their spouses, make prison a destination or sabotage other’s sail boats. They tend not to sit on their chuffs either, but happy people do things to help themselves, their families, their communities and safer playgrounds and successful countries are made.

A substantial economic platform would allow all Americans to play — to play their parts and become

Poor Donald is really not the problem — he just occupies it. The problem is us and we can fix it.

more valuable. Andrew Yang called it a UBI in his campaign and was successful in communicating and selling the idea. Needs to be bigger though, and would cost an absolute shuddering fortune. But if this can be organized, the immediate beneficiaries would include a broad swath of people from all backgrounds and political spectrums — people who can be connected into a harmony of well being and success.

Native Americans, African Americans, struggling farmers, workers in diminishing manufacturing and retailing, actors and sculptors can be released from poverty into positions of hope, ambition and achievement not realized or even imagined before. With a base economic platform people across the U.S. would no longer be stuck by their existing conditions of race, illness, poverty, education, location, current skills and education.

With a base economic platform people can become healthy to return to school — themselves or their grandchildren. They may move into jobs that they like and not grudge, become more productive and also employ others. A pool of talent previously unrealized may be unleashed to make their own decisions to better their lives as well as others. And, how do we pay for all this you ask?

The brilliant and talented have be free — to be inventive, creative, engaging, employing and money-making. All the stops need pulling from this grand prosperity machine to have the air it needs. I am talking about an unimpeded flow of money, goods and services and people — where the United States becomes an enormous Hong Kong, where trade is paramount but is in partnership with its population by paying a base economic platform to all. One side doesn’t survive without the other.

The purely capitalist world became demonized because it left too many behind and the socialist world didn’t have the money to pay for it all.

The two can become partners in a dance most satisfying. The partnership is the unleashed making of money with the distribution of it to everyone.

Making money by education, invention, productivity not restricted to an elite but by all who may participate and contribute. The distribution is not a cushion but a platform from which to do things — go to school, start selling or paint pictures. Think what the marriage of this odd couple would achieve. For starters, there would be fewer Donald’s, Bernie’s and look-a-likes — as the wind would collapse from their sails. Also, a list of other ugly aspects of U.S. life would move dramatically for the better. The incarcerated could well diminish by a third, good schools and universities become common place for all — and we would all be healthier. The Black and Latino populations would especially experience a welcome lift in well being driving racism to history.

These are beautiful paths to better all our lives. We just have to see them and seize them. Donald and Corona have made this all possible.