| Friend,
We don't get "again" in the real world.
I learned that as a mayor. When I came home to the city I grew up in – a place that had lost its biggest employer decades earlier and never fully recovered – I didn't run around promising to bring back what was gone. I didn't tell people we were going to somehow make things go back to the way they used to be.
That's not how it works. And deep down, everyone knows it.
But here's what I also know: the absence of "again" is not a loss. It's an opening. The question isn't how we restore the past. The question is whether we have the courage and the clarity to build something better.
That's true for a city. And it's true for a country.
The systems we inherited – our agencies, our norms, our political institutions – many of them were designed for a world that no longer exists. Some of the things being torn down right now was already overdue for change. That doesn't make their destruction any less reckless or wrong. But it does mean that when we get the chance to build again, we should build something worthy of this moment – not a replica of what came before.
That's the work I want to be part of. And if you are looking to be a part of something like that too, then I hope you’ll consider making a contribution today:
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Thank you,
Pete
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