«Some of those people may not agree with us on everything. We are going to need to value what we have in common when it comes to these important things and love or at least tolerate what makes us different. After all we’re fighting an attack on diversity. »
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«I think Americans grew complacent after almost 250 years of stable government, of thinking that things could not stray too far from what they always had been, that the laws would hold up, the systems would hold up. But they’re breakable and they’re being broken, and it’s breaking the world, from human rights to the climate to the global economy. All this is happening because American voters stayed home. Trump got 31% of the vote, just a hair more than Kamala Harris, and 39% stayed home. A tiny bit more turnout, a tiny bit more participation, a tiny bit more concern, and we would not be here today, because those criminals would not be in the White House. We slept through the threat to our democracy, too many of us, but the destruction is waking a lot of people up. Stay awake.»
Thank you, Rebecca Solnit. I’ve been saying this for a while. “A Republic, if you can keep it.” This something my dad, God rest his soul, was wrong about. (That, and global warming.)
« I know we can do this. I don’t know how. I don’t know when. And can is not will. Whether we will or not depends on whether and how we show up.
I talk a lot about hope. Hope is not optimism. Optimism says everything will be fine. Hope says we don’t know what will happen but if we show up, if we stand up, we can maybe seize the chances. Hope makes friends with uncertainty, takes it by the hand and guides it toward our desires, hope grabs the possibilities. Hope recognizes the future is made in the present, it’s made by what we do and don’t do.»
3.5% of the population in *sustained* involvement will do the trick.
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