That last part is really important:
"It’s going to be a long, tiring, demoralizing slog, and those of us who aren’t in the crosshairs this particular week have to fight for those of us who are."
Do not look the other way just because it is not about you, because tomorrow it may well be. We need to help each other fight our battles because it is the only way we have a chance of surviving. Please everyone we must do this together.
Yesterday there was THIS thread, too, quoting a really marvelous young man:
Joe Kennedy III
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029021830
QUOTE:
It is among the most basic human truths: Every one of us, some day, will be brought to our knees. By a diagnosis we didn't expect, a phone call we can't imagine, or a loss we cannot endure.
That common humanity inspires our mercy. It fortifies our compassion. It drives us to look out for the sick, the elderly, the poor, and the most vulnerable among us.
Yesterday's bill -- yesterday's devastating bill -- does the opposite.
The bill is more than premiums and tax cuts. It is a cold and calculated world view: One that scapegoats the struggling, and sees fault in suffering. One dead set on dividing us based on who we love, where we come from, the direction of our faith and the size of our fortunes.
We see it in their tax plan, their budget cuts, their immigration policy, their civil rights assaults -- and yesterday, in their cruel health care plan.
We must reject it.
We must decide, instead, to take care of each other -- because, but for the grace of God, we will all one day wake up in need of a little mercy.
This nation's character has never been defined by the power we give the already strong -- but by the strength we give the weak.
Joe Kennedy III
I think he's the one I heard being interviewed a few weeks ago on this very topic, and as he put it "this is how we take care of one another." That just spoke not just volumes but entire libraries to me.
YES. And this is the way we should start speaking about it, I think. I don't see any more perfect way to try to start bringing us back together as a nation and send the divisiveness out to the proverbial dumpster. It's WE. US. OURS. Not so much I, me, mine. It's about the collective. And I think we DO need to take care of one another. Nobody's entitled to their own planet. We're all together on this one single little planet. Stephen Hawking recently said we now have about 100 years to find a new one.
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