All of us should consider the blessings that our current president bestows upon us. For example, the blessing of “final words.”

I began this series, and wrote nine parts, because I really wanted to be of some service to my fellow Americans. I do not think I am smarter, more insightful, or any in any way better than any other American citizen. I do suspect a lot of us are alarmed with where we are as a nation right now.

In this final entry, please understand that I don’t think we covered all the concerns that are present in our country and abroad right now. Not by a long shot. I do a hope the series provided something to think about. Any one of the long list of deeply concerning actions, accusations, convictions, or behaviors, would rightly give us reason to be concerned about our current president.

But his time is finite.

I am urging all of us to recognize that the aftermath of what he has brought into American life was not done by him alone. Most of our elected officials have some complicity either because they followed him in lockstep or due to hubris, over confidence, and carelessness, they allowed the chaos to get this far. And so did we as voters. The justice system has not been perfect, but it is served us better than any other branch of our government right now.

What that all means is that it is going to take us years (if not decades) to recover from everything that has happened already. The longer we wait to begin seriously considering what to do, the worse it will get.

We as a people are becoming so numb to our own humanity that we are destroying ourselves. The blessings of our current president makes that clear to anyone willing to see.

And the blessings of our current president are capable of opening our eyes to the blessings of Americans everywhere. Here are just a few examples:

The descendants of slaves have every right to say all this is “same as it ever was” and they have a strong and dismaying point. However, at the same time, they represent so much that is the very best of us. They saw this horrific hate, bled from it, many died under its inhumanity. And still, they persevered. They’ve spent their history in America leading by example, showing an unloving country how we can be better humans to each other. We need to learn from them.

The women of the country will say “way ahead of you, privileged white male” and they have a deeply shameful truth supporting the accusation. At the same time, they have a history of representing the most resilient of us. Not because they wanted to be, because they had to be to survive the scourge of male lust and lack of discipline, and so many men’s recognition and fear of women as the true source of life and humanity. The only path open to men is to accept that we need women to drag us away from the abyss we men have created. We need to learn what true power is from them and give up on our greed and politics and predatory failures.

Now we are being forced to see other groups we wrongly ignored. Those of color quietly doing thankless jobs at shitty pay because they know true wealth comes from love and each other. If we all leaned into their mindset a bit more and away from the rat race of wealth uber alles, we would be happier.

Thanks to the blessings of our current president, we can see anew that the answers are all around us, we just aren’t asking the right questions. It is not “how do we win the game of America,” it’s “how do we position Americans to win at life?” The answer is working together to make the promise of America become the reality of America, maybe for the first time ever.

We can do this. We just need to stop for a while to allow ourselves to think deeply and clearly about the madness that is currently America. If we did, we would be insane not to change direction toward the idea of “From Many One” we were always supposed to embrace.

At a time when the rest of the world is racing forward in medicine, science, business, and creativity, this once great nation is falling further and further into hate, revitalized racism, and a cancerous negativity about everything that once made us great.

I can no longer say with confidence that we will ever recover. But we have to try. And we can’t do that unless we really think about what’s going on and what each of us need to do and what we need to insist upon if we are going to give America a chance at fulfilling the dream we always heard about.

God bless America. Please.