ENGAGE

I don’t know what more can be said about Donald Trump’s electoral victory and what that portends for our country and the world. I think on a personal level, it means that I can no longer sit back and watch the world go by. It means that the time for citizen action is now. Citizens sitting back is what got us into this mess and the only way out of it is for us to step up and engage. WHat that engagement will look like is hard to say, although it is obvious that the first task is to oppose Trump’s Cabinet choices - all of which appear to be abominable. We must call, write, post on Facebook, Tweet, march, picket and knock on doors. We cannot leave any stone unturned in this fight for our country’s soul. We must stand up for those who are vulnerable, the “others” who are, in all actuality all of us. We must be the America I think we are. We are already great but we must act like we believe it. We must not let evil triumph. If it does, it will because we didn’t stand up for what is right, what is true, what is good.