(Dobbs) Resilience Might Be Our Best Hope

Depressed for the first time on the 4th of July

I’ve been around for a lot of 4ths of July.

Some years have been better than others for America, some required more conflict than others to put our nation back on track, but all held the hope of a favorable future. All sang to the spirit of what we celebrate on the 4th of July.

Until this one.

Yesterday, for the first time on the 4th of July, I was worried about the regressive state of America. For the first time, I was depressed about the degenerating destiny of America.

There is only one man, above all others, to blame.

My friend Dan Rather wrote yesterday here on Substack that if we accept his course and his conduct “without so much as a whimper, our republic will spiral deeper into grave danger.” “Speaking up and speaking out,” he said, “and defending others who do, will help. It’s the least we can do to preserve any semblance of truth, justice, and the American way.”

In other words, we must be outspoken, we must be resilient. That might be our best hope. Like the Founders, we have to conquer fear, we have to rebut tyranny. And we have to be better at it by the next 4th of July.

Over more than five decades Greg Dobbs has been a correspondent for two television networks including ABC News, a political columnist for The Denver Post and syndicated columnist for Scripps newspapers, a moderator on Rocky Mountain PBS, and author of two books, including one about the life of a foreign correspondent called “Life in the Wrong Lane.” He also co-authored a book about the seminal year for baby boomers, called “1969: Are You Still Listening?” He has covered presidencies, politics, and the U.S. space program at home, and wars, natural disasters, and other crises around the globe, from Afghanistan to South Africa, from Iran to Egypt, from the Soviet Union to Saudi Arabia, from Nicaragua to Namibia, from Vietnam to Venezuela, from Libya to Liberia, from Panama to Poland. Dobbs has won three Emmys, the Distinguished Service Award from the Society of Professional Journalists, and as a 39-year resident of Colorado, a place in the Denver Press Club Hall of Fame.

You can learn more at GregDobbs.net