Friday is in the books. So is yesterday. Now what? What's next?
We had the inauguration of a monumentally unqualified man who has more pure power than almost all the forty four qualified men who have preceded him. THAT is frightening. That he defeated one of the most qualified persons who ever sought the office is angering. That she was a woman is depressing.
We have a cabinet that it appears will be more male, more rich, and more white than any in recent years.
Yesterday, eclipsing the inauguration, was a grass roots movement, grown organically among the country's only majority "minority" - women. They knitted their Pussy Hats, created their signs, and, accompanied by men who support them - the very definition of real men - and took to the nation's and the world's streets to send a message.
And so we find ourselves today.
I really don't know where this will go. If sustained, it can make a difference. Similar events led to Civil Rights action. It led to the end of a war and the premature ends of two presidencies. So we know it has the potential.
But then I look around at our still diminishing electoral standing. We are TRULY the minority party and, as far as can be seen, out of power and without a real voice.
My hope is that the young people I saw yesterday, in particular the young women who so forcefully and eloquently represented themselves and their ideals, will run for elected office. Any office. I sincerely hope there will be ZERO unopposed republicans, even in the reddest districts.
It takes strength and grit to run for office.
The people - the WOMEN - I observed yesterday give me hope.
The question we ALL need to be asking is "how can we help you win?"
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