Confession and penance I have lived a life of mindless privilege. I am humiliated that my parents – they of “The Greatest Generation” - raised me to believe that working (since I was 15 and doing family chores before that), and paying my bills and saving, going to college and grad school, and raising a  family and paying (with minimal federal support) for children’s education was somehow “right”. Now I understand – I am a deplorable person who clings to my guns and Bible for safety and salvation and now that I am awoke to this moral atrocity I am ashamed. I am a straight, white, Anglo-Saxon, fundamentalist Christian, southern, military (career), male and thereby am fully deserving of the enmity and scorn heaped upon me. I suggest that I, and those like me, owe lifelong penance and suggest that we provide the following: 1). We should provide the same block grants to other countries as we do to our own states. I feel like this is a moral imperative if we are to be global citizen leaders and provide reparation for the avaricious greedy domination of our brothers and sisters in the rest of the world.  2) We should divert the funds from the immoral wall to international human rights and global justice campaigns. My feelings would be soothed (only a bit – I’m still a reprehensible exploiter or people and resources) if this immoral blood money would be used for the common good. 3) Since our current structures are immorally suppressing the votes of our new immigrant neighbors, and the trip to cross the border is so arduous, we should open polling sites in neighborhoods across the globe for our brothers and sisters to join us to decide who will lead the citizens of United States. 4) Persons like me should be banned from participation in public life such as jobs, voting, or public office. I feel that we should be made to vanish and remain invisible so that our wiser and my more deserving brothers and sisters can lead in the path or righteousness that only they can discern. I am ashamed that I was raised to perpetuate this moral outrage and that I blindly accepted it. It is my earnest plea (Not a prayer – that is a throwback to the oppressive misogynistic patriarchy) that we hold hands and move forward with these and other initiatives to build a proper society and world.