Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
… The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
– Abraham Lincoln
Wonque - aka “wonk” - is described as “an expert who studies a subject or issue thoroughly and excessively.” We may not be experts, but we definitely study issues excessively … some may say, “obsessively.”
When you break “wonque” down in Spanglish, it’s “won que?” or, “won what?” This is exactly how we feel. With much of media reverting to propaganda instead of objective reporting; with the gaps between rich and poor, educated and ignorant, widening exponentially; and with people continuing to die from lack of adequate food and healthcare, from preventable diseases, and from useless wars … we wonder, “what have we won?”
The fight’s not over. The struggle rages on …








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