Another day dawns in an America that our parents and grandparents would have had the
good sense to be ashamed of. For those of us on whose watch this disaster has occurred, we might actually benefit from asking ourselves the question the GOP made popular nearly two decades ago. When they ask what WE did to save our democracy, our Bill of Rights, our environment---"What will we tell the children?"
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Yet, I'm as guilty as everyone else. What do we do except vote? And GOTV? And volunteer to call. And to write to our reps. A talk of national strike isn't going to happen while most people still have something to lose—their job, their house, their car.
Things seem to have to be really, really bad before we, as a collective, get our shit together & do something. Look at voting. I read this morning they are expecting record turnout for this election & yet, if we'd had record turnout for every election we wouldn't be in this mess. There seems to be some truth that people have to feel something personally before they take action. 
The locked up kids, though. It's already been normalized. We take children from their parents & lock them up. We are paying for that with our tax dollars, yet our lives go on like before. I have no words for that.
