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Stop Reacting!

Ray Katz
3 min readJul 16, 2024

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Every single event ever is portrayed as helping Donald Trump. But there are more than 75 million American voters who are ready, willing and able to defeat him.

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Trump was shot by a registered Republican using a gun that Republicans love. He was slightly clipped in the ear by a bullet and was golfing the next day.

One person was killed and two were critically injured. I care more about them—I don’t worry so much about the guy who suffered no serious injury. I would feel the same no matter who was shot.

Trump is nobody special to me. We talk about government serving the people but we waste all of our attention on a bunch of old impotent men who will be dead in less than 10 years. The much younger people—one dead, and two others who we can only hope will recover—well, what about THEM?

I’m 67. When someone dies at 40, I think it’s a much bigger tragedy than if I die; I’ve already had a longer life, and a pretty pleasant one at that.

Where Is Love?

Trump is not important. Biden is not important. Whatever the election outcome, neither will be around in ten years. They’ve shot their bolts.

We need to care for each other, for the planet, for our children and future generations. WE need to decide what’s truly important, and focus on those things and take action on…

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Ray Katz
Ray Katz

Written by Ray Katz

Internet pioneer. But I’m most interested in stabilizing the Earth’s climate and promoting our common humanity. WeAreSaners.org

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