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A Message from Brenda, Return2Respect’s Creator
Return2Respect is a movement, a loosely knit collaboration of all of us who don’t want to be polarized, don’t want to hate each other, and want to do our part in bringing back trust and common decency.
The damage to our society, our union, is clearly visible. Trust in our leaders has fallen to 15%. In 1984 58% of us agreed our representatives cared about serving us. Now 58% disagree. Common decency is #1 on the list of “things we used to respect, but no longer do.” Journalists and the American presidency also made the list. Our media has to take some of the blame for distrust and fear, too. Too much information can be just as harmful as too little.
I’ve been around for a long time and have observed, with sorrow, the changes in common decency and respect. We cannot change history by destroying all structure. We can only improve on the past and leave something better for the future.
I graduated from high school in 1958. During the 50's, our government had lots of issues on its plate. But 72% of us still trusted our elected representatives to do the right thing. Sure, we might have been a little naive and we didn’t have the instant information available today, but only 15% under any condition is something that cannot be ignored.
Last 4th of July my 4 year old great-grandson entertained at a celebration. He loves to sing and play guitar and closed with This land is my land, this land is your land, asking people to be happy together. It struck me that it’s been 60 years since Woodie Guthrie first wrote that to try to bring people together. Sadly a 4 year old child still feels the need to keep trying. We owe the children something better.
Please do this one small thing - place a “respect” window cling in your car (truck, bus) window and become part of the change. Think about this: Where are we headed if we don’t get together and begin to build the road back to civility and trust? Would you really want to end up there?
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