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babylonsister

(171,075 posts)
Thu Apr 27, 2017, 08:49 AM Apr 2017

The First 100 Days of This Glorious Resistance

#RESIST!!

http://johnpavlovitz.com/2017/04/27/the-first-100-days-of-this-glorious-resistance/

The First 100 Days of This Glorious Resistance
April 27, 2017 / John Pavlovitz


Lots of beautiful things grow in manure.

It is often in the absolute worst conditions that life springs up in surprisingly defiant ways, pushing back against the most dire circumstances and rewriting the story with hope when hope seems counterintuitive.

101 days ago, I stood in the streets of downtown Raleigh, shoulder to shoulder with tens of thousands of my neighbors, making a loud, plot-twisting declaration together. We marched in solidarity with millions of like-hearted hopemongers, similarly gathered in hundreds of cities throughout our nation; a fierce though grieving army choosing not to allow fear to rule the day—but to preemptively declare love the winner.

Before Day 1 of this fraudulent, illegitimate, malignant Presidency, we marked Day 1 of our shared resistance to it—

And it has been glorious to behold.

For the first 100 days of this Administration, we have sustained our fury and our focus; speaking truth into every lie, challenging every legislative assault on Humanity, opposing every ugly bastardization of Democracy, pulling into the light every hidden misdeed. From the most disparate corners of this country we have knit ourselves together and become a singular, invincible presence—transcending race, orientation, faith tradition, and political affiliation in ways that are uniquely American.

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These past 100 days have certainly not been the days we’d have wished for, but during this time, we together have been the nation our forbears dreamed of and died for. We the people, united and indivisible, have been the unwavering opposition to injustice, the pushback against inequality, the resistance to tyranny.

And we’re just getting started.

Happy 100th Day to the unified, undeterred majority—keeping America great.

May you continue to resist in glory.

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The First 100 Days of This Glorious Resistance (Original Post) babylonsister Apr 2017 OP
Yes! & thankYOU! & YAY! furtheradu Apr 2017 #1
May we have the energy and focus to double down and accelerate during the next 100 days! NRaleighLiberal Apr 2017 #2

NRaleighLiberal

(60,015 posts)
2. May we have the energy and focus to double down and accelerate during the next 100 days!
Thu Apr 27, 2017, 09:04 AM
Apr 2017

Actually, may he not last anywhere near another 100!

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