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Showing Original Post only (View all)I don't post that often and I'm sure many consider that a good thing. But, please, read this one. [View all]
It's sliding away.
Our democracy, our morality, our leadership in the world---Trump, plagued with the twin illnesses of arrogance and greed---is about to destroy the greatest nation the world has ever known. It would serve no purpose to recite the details. I understand that I am preaching to the choir here---a very informed choir. But, so we're informed---so what?
Like a lot of you, I suspect, I'm wondering just what I can do to impact this tragedy; to prevent Trump from assuming power as the tin pot dictator he has always wanted to be. I think it has to be something big, something drastic, something that no news organization can ignore or mischaracterize.
As a child of the 60's, I understand demonstrations. I know---because I've been told by some here---that that is old-fashioned and cumbersome. I am aware that social media has opened up a myriad of new possible avenues for protest. BUT---
---Nothing you might do digitally could compare to, say, a million people assembling on the Mall to INSIST that the Russian hacking and election interference be fully investigated, that the Senate not approve the fascist rogue's gallery Trump wants for his cabinet and that Trump produce his damned TAX RETURNS!
I am 67. I am willing to throw my arthritic body into the cogs of Trump's machine, but I need to know just where I can have the most effect. I---WE---need leadership to organize effective counter-measures and we need it NOW. If we do not "flood the zone" with indignation, protests, outrage and an absolute refusal to accept this bullshit that is being peddled as "just another election", we will live to be outcasts in our own land.
If, as some of these, neo-nazis have hoped, it is some day a crime to be a liberal Democrat, by God I don't want my charges dismissed for lack of evidence! I and millions like me will follow if a nationally known leader will point the way.