re: #171 ObserverArt

Morning!

I hate to ask…does our union still stand?

It’s a question I ask every morning now, you never know what The Orange Behemoth has managed to screw up over night.

Yes. We stand. Moreover, a whole lot of people who were on the fence about “both parties being just the same” (a pernicious right-wing talking point for decades) are learning that’s a lie, and translating that realisation into votes.

We’ll have to see how the special election in Penna. for the US House and the election for the Tenn. state senate goes, but so far the Democrats are on a roll since the election.

It is noteworthy that in Texas for the first time in decades, there is a Democratic challenger in every Texas house and senate race in the state.

It wasn’t too long in my own state we had a Democratic governor (John Kerry, who replaced the recently deceased Charles Thone - for whom our flags are still at half-staff).

This is not unwinnable. It is hard, but democracy is hard. Every generation has to learn that it cannot simply sit back and watch politics go by.

As evidenced by the massive political uprising by the young adults against the NRA, entrenched conservative interests are in retreat across much of the political battlefield. (I think I’m done with war analogies now.)