Last week, I did not blog. My bad! My task last week was to march. I marched in the Women's March in D.C., and last night, I joined an airport protest at the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport. I shouted, I stomped. I drummed, I wept. I'm sure you did, too.
The first week is done. Now, what?
So much was thrown at our country in just two weeks: Russian interference in our election, steamrolling over Native treaties, gagging our scientists and public park officials, disregarding legal precedent for Presidential power, appointing an avowed white supremacist to the National Security Council and so much more. Then, of course, barring the entry of green-card citizens and refugees.
It's terrifying. It's exhausting. And it's only the very beginning.
Task for Week 2: Try to get a sense of the whole picture, not just the individual incidents.
They add up. Nothing is isolated.
One blogger's thoughts certainly offers some terrifying food for thought.
A selection from the link above:
That is to say, the administration is testing the extent to which the DHS (and other executive agencies) can act and ignore orders from the other branches of government. This is as serious as it can possibly get: all of the arguments about whether order X or Y is unconstitutional mean nothing if elements of the government are executing them and the courts are being ignored.
Yesterday was the trial balloon for a coup d’état against the United States. It gave them useful information.
Don't get fatigued, y'all. Two down. Only 206 weeks left to go (possibly...and hopefully not).
