People Gotta Be Free

The news is so depressing...

• 100,000 people have died from Covid in America, most of them, ultimately, because of the mental illness of our president

• The President of the United States, successor of Washington, Lincoln, Roosevelt, and Obama is tweeting vile lies daily.

• We see video of a privileged white woman weaponizing race.

• Another unarmed black man has died under the knee of a white police officer.

But we cannot allow that depression to stop us. We must end this horrible national nightmare.

When will the nightmare end?

When We the People end it.

Be INTENTIONAL about bridging idealogical, racial, religious, ethnic, cultural barriers. We don't have to agree but we do have to see, as best we can, others' points of view. We are a diverse republic. I can find some common ground even with conservative small-r republicans like Bill Kristol and Jennfer Rubin and Steve Schmidt and liberal small-r republicans like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren and Robert Reich.

BUT ours IS a republic. If we can endorse the key second paragraph of the Declaration ...

(The Fifth Dimension's Declaration plus "People Gotta Be Free")

and that magnificent first sentence of the Constitution ---

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We the People of the United States, in Order to...

• form a more perfect Union,

• establish Justice,

• insure domestic Tranquility,

• provide for the common defence,

• promote the general Welfare,

• and secure the Blessings of Liberty

to ourselves and our Posterity,

do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

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... then, politically, I am your comrade in 2020 even if we have been opponents in the past and even if we will be opponents again in the future.

In 2020 all small-r-republicans must donate to and work for Democratic candidates whether they happen to be to your/my left or right.

We must fill Facebook and Twitter and Instagram with truth.

Vote, my friends, early, and then get at least ten other voters to the polls.

We must demolish and obliterate the stain of Trumpism.

We can resume our other battles later, but for now we must ...

Reclaim decency;

stop the chaos;

restore America.