I just posted this to my Facebook feed. I’ll probably lose a few more friends from my conservative Florida Panhandle network and maybe some liberal ones, too. Whatever. If they can’t accept my dissent from their worldview, then I guess they weren’t really my friends to start with.
Okay, my liberal Facebook friends. The time for grief is over. It's time to put our money where our mouths are. What are WE, collectively and individually, going to do to make sure 2018 is different? It's time to plan and organize. We have the population and the popular opinion advantage. We can harness that as we look to the future. But if we keep posting TEOTWAWKI memes and articles right now, we are doing EXACTLY what conservatives did with Obama without any proof or evidence. Sheesh. I heard somewhere that facts are supposed to have a liberal bias? Let's get our act together, organize, and look to the future. Should we be on alert? Yes! If any of the scary stuff we fear materializes, call that crap out immediately. FIGHT immediately. But lets work from facts and not from scare tactics. We're better than that.
So, what’s the next step? I’m done grieving, and I’m done blaming. I’m done being scared of what Trump “could mean,” and I’m ready to make sure I am instrumental in determining what he WILL mean to our country.
I could not care less who the next DNC chair is as long as he/she takes this job seriously and has an excellent plan for retaking the Senate and hopefully the House in 2018. If it pans out they way it looks like it’s going, I welcome Ellison as the new chair. And I also hope Howard Dean, or someone else without another full-time professional commitment, is his second-in-command so that there’s at least one high profile person in a full-time position to carry out the DNC’s needed guidance and vision.
This loss was devastating. On so many levels. And we have to recognize the very real fears of many Americans that Trump’s many campaign slogans and promises engendered. But we also have to band together and MOVE FORWARD past this loss and into a progressive future.
FIRED Up! READY to GO!
Are you?