Also important to read today….
3 NovChicken Noodle Soup for the Liberal Soul
Excerpt:
It’s tough on the psyche to be beaten.Throughout our country’s history, abolitionists, suffragists, union organizers, anti-racists, antiwarriors, civil libertarians, feminists and gay rights activists have challenged the majority of Americans to take off their blinders. Each succeeded one way or another, but not overnight, and certainly not without serious setbacks.
After a decent interval of licking our wounds and pondering what might have been and where we went wrong, we need to spit out our despair and return – united – to battling those who have for the moment outmaneuvered us. Otherwise, we might just as well lie down in the street and let them flatten us with their schemes.
The Apropos Quote of this day
3 NovThey that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin
But to remind you that we must fight on:
Well worth reading, and very well said…
3 NovQuoted from just_eunice
As you lower the flag draped coffin of your son into a hole in the ground, I’m sure it will bring you great comfort to know that his last thoughts as he lay bleeding to death thousands of miles from home was probably, “At least those gays can’t get married.”
Complete entry here.
And yet we must fight on. We cannot surrender.
So where do we go from here?
3 NovHow can we (the progressives of this nation) live with another four years of Bush imperialism and dominionism?
Don’t ask me, I’m at a loss.
Pardon me while I grieve the loss of a democracy.
An Aging Trans Woman 