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Ron Green

(9,870 posts) Tue Jan 10, 2017, 03:48 AM Jan 2017

Feel apprehension and despair about the next 4 years? [View all]

Turn off your TV. Get outside and talk to your neighbors. Watch this guy's TED Talk:

&sns=em Seriously, take 18 minutes to watch this, then come back here and try to engage in the mewling about how doomed we are.

The fact is that the stuff that happens inside the Beltway has almost nothing to do with how authentically we live our lives.

Yeah, the cowards in the Congress are going to do what they've been doing for the past many years, but you and your neighbors and your friends and your people have the power to build a better world right where you are.

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Feel apprehension and despair about the next 4 years? [View all] Ron Green Jan 2017 OP

I did, but then remembered we out number them Canoe52 Jan 2017 #1

Sure OK. Behind the Aegis Jan 2017 #2

"the stuff that happens inside the Beltway... handmade34 Jan 2017 #3

infectious enthusiasm can manifest in many ways mdbl Jan 2017 #4

I have always dealt with great stress and grief with lots of walking and I don't talk politics with hlthe2b Jan 2017 #5

That's a very sad and toxic place you're describing. Ron Green Jan 2017 #6

Yet my locale & the state as a whole DID go for HRC hlthe2b Jan 2017 #7

I imagine there was much of this around the country, Ron Green Jan 2017 #8

Mmmmm, delicious Hopium! And it's cut with a dash of both-sidesism! hatrack Jan 2017 #9

Calling community activism "hopium?" Ron Green Jan 2017 #11

Arguing that more and better block parties will negate corruption, war, racism and repression - hatrack Jan 2017 #12

It's not "block parties," it's development. Ron Green Jan 2017 #13

Dude talks way too fast. Tommy_Carcetti Jan 2017 #10