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Mary Ann Dimand's avatar

I am reminded of two things. First, my mother telling me about being a grad student at UCLA in the bad old days of McCarthyism and loyalty oaths, with an obbligato of “you just had to go along.” She was a singularly anxious and guilt-ridden person.

The second is how Trump and his cadres just keep rolling along, one fait accompli after another, oh was that illegal? too bad it’s done nothing can fix it ha ha. And on the front end, as you note, lobbing up sticks, stones, bones, names, lies, damned lies and threats, to clear their path just enough.

We need to be willing to obstruct.

We need not to give phantasms of profit motive a blanket pass, though it’s become The American Way over the past 45 years. We need to refuse to practice helplessness or hopelessness.

As Ray Bradbury quoted Hugh Latimer saying to Nicholas Ridley just before they were burned at the stake: “Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God’s grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.”

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Mike's avatar

The only real question now is whether we will choose to be cowards, too

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