I agree. How right you are. This is our time. Before the next election cycle, each of us has to open doors and minds daily -- without the pressured structure of an election cycle. Casual loving interactions.
I agree. How right you are. This is our time. Before the next election cycle, each of us has to open doors and minds daily -- without the pressured structure of an election cycle. Casual loving interactions.
That's the scary part, Jan. There's no one to save us but . . . us. No white knight, no anointed savior that's going to turn things around. President Obama made a comment years ago that made me scratch my head mightily at the time but makes perfect sense now:
We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
Rachel Maddow made an equally important point in her podcast Ultra, a look back at the last time an American fascist movement in the 30s and early 40s came very close to turning things upside down. Seditious elected officials (think there were 27 at the time) were by-and-large not ousted by the courts or the law but by the American electorate who purged them from the system. They voted them out.
We all have our roles to play as citizens, neighbors, community organizers, whatever to build pro-democracy coalitions because together we can open those doors and minds.
It's frequently the casual, loving, genuine interactions that work best, flesh on flesh, eyeball to eyeball. Won't change everyone's heart and mind but as long as it changes enough that's okay.
I agree. How right you are. This is our time. Before the next election cycle, each of us has to open doors and minds daily -- without the pressured structure of an election cycle. Casual loving interactions.
That's the scary part, Jan. There's no one to save us but . . . us. No white knight, no anointed savior that's going to turn things around. President Obama made a comment years ago that made me scratch my head mightily at the time but makes perfect sense now:
We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
Rachel Maddow made an equally important point in her podcast Ultra, a look back at the last time an American fascist movement in the 30s and early 40s came very close to turning things upside down. Seditious elected officials (think there were 27 at the time) were by-and-large not ousted by the courts or the law but by the American electorate who purged them from the system. They voted them out.
We all have our roles to play as citizens, neighbors, community organizers, whatever to build pro-democracy coalitions because together we can open those doors and minds.
It's frequently the casual, loving, genuine interactions that work best, flesh on flesh, eyeball to eyeball. Won't change everyone's heart and mind but as long as it changes enough that's okay.
Thanks for the comments!
Thanks Peg, that's what I'm gonna run on too. It's all some of us can do.