Loneliness. Don't We Know? 

     Hillary Clinton blames the "vast right-wing conspiracy" for "stirring division and alienation." Don't we know? That conspiracy is responsible for everything from hurricanes to making the pandemic a "political wedge issue?"  

     Don't we know? Loneliness is an issue in the United Kingdom, and it exists in Venezuela, Japan and everywhere people live. 

     Here, with over 300 million people, there are singles, phone-addicted youth, widows, shy people, poor people, orphans, recent immigrants, addicts, runaways and others. 

     Politicians latch onto any issue. It's what they do. At last. Loneliness can be cured! 

     A Democratic senator proposed a "National Strategy for Social Connection Act." There would be an executive office to "develop a government-wide strategy to integrate social connection policy across federal departments and agencies" ...and provide funding for the CDC for research. 

     Doesn't he know the CDC was largely responsible for the greatest breakdown of social connection in living memory? 

     Alert! The purpose for a new government office becomes secondary to sustaining the office itself. And if it began nonpolitical, it becomes politicized and weaponized. Lord, help us!  

     He could, when families, churches and community bind us together again. Don't we know?

           Jimmy

based on column in WORLD magazine