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I’M TIRED

Myron Clifton
5 min readDec 3, 2021

America can make anyone tired. It has that unique American ability to be exhausting and make anyone at any time tired.

To absorb the daily news of America’s actions and inactions is to inhale smog, dirt, pollution, and grime.

School shootings, lost rights for women, political lies all across the news and social media, and of course, the fuel that keeps America running — racism — never, ever, sleeps.

Are there good news and feel good stories to know and share?

Of course there are. For instance:

Unemployment is at the lowest levels in decades

Build Back Better will transform lives, wages, access to healthcare, pre-K schools, roads and bridges, and access to clean water and air. BBB will deliver even more — check it out here on the Government’s website: https://joebiden.com/build-back-better/

But as is typical in this country, all good news will be presented by the television and print media as “Not enough” or “Bad for business or the wealthy.

Negativity is like fire in that in quickly spreads from your living room to your kitchen, past your bathroom, and right to your roof. The American media holds the matches that ignites the flames that spread the hate and racism. They profit off the misery they push on the people.

And then they blame the President or, most likely, the Vice President.

And consumers do what consumers do: Over-consume media to the point of being…

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Myron Clifton
Myron Clifton

Written by Myron Clifton

Indie published author, Voice Memos Podcast, Dear Dean EMagazine owner, Blogger at Medium. Myron Clifton on Spoutible. Check out my books at link below. 👨🏾‍💻

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