It's been so long since I've pretended I know how to run a blog, but let's go!

For some reason, I feel like I don't know at all what I'm doing here, even though every day for the past 7 years, I've been making words about our situation, as well as speaking strongly about advocacy options.

Over the course of the past 7 years, I've been committed to the understanding that, were we progressives to lose all branches of government to the extreme right, it would be time to make changes of my own. Very least would be restarting this blog. Beyond that, I'm downscaling and making lifestyle changes to free myself up as a resource.

There will be very difficult days ahead. Rightwingers, fundamentalists, and authoritarians have decided they have carte blanche to remake the US into their own pseudo theocratic power state.

People blindly voted Trump and his sycophants into office based on the xenophobic, anti-left hysteria that the GOP has been feeding them for decades now. Already some small few are beginning to realize this was a mistake, but it's too late, at least for the next two years.

We need to do what we can now.

I'll close with a valuable quote from RFK (the real one, not the squirrel about to join the Trump administration) on the occasion of Dr. King's murder:

"Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world. Let us dedicate ourselves to that, and say a prayer for our country and for our people."

I'm in for the long haul - I can't imagine a better thing for me to be doing.

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