They can trashcan gay rights, rights of the impoverished and the uneducated, the rights of ethnic “minorities” (I’ve never been comfortable with that term), women’s rights, inclusive and wide-spread religious rights, the rights of the aged, the rights of those physically and mentally ill and the rights of every human being who sinks their lives into their job.
I don’t know what we can do. It should make us crazy enough to make a loud noise that disrupts the whole works somehow. No I am not advocating violence. I’d love to see a day when no one goes to work just to offer a comprehensive statement.
For lent I considered whether I would make the huge sacrifice of jigsaw puzzles and cookies (my slightly out of control habits). When I woke up one morning at 3AM and wanted coffee I discovered that my coffee maker was broken. I immediately dressed and spent the next hour jetting around town looking for a store that was open so I could buy one. The toaster died this morning and I WAS ON IT.
I can fix those things. I can only endure the big disasters which are rolling over my life like the weather. I can only teach what they will let me teach. If I do differently I risk my at will job. I write, I vote, I telephone, I write letters to newspapers, etc.
I cannot control the idiots in charge and I cannot control the idiots who vote them into power because as far as I can tell voting idiots would rather stick with what doesn’t work and with what blames the “others” for some kind of free ride than take a flying leap on intelligence and compassion, two qualities also on the list of what we are willing to sacrifice.
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