Thanks, @ericvancewalton for this light-hearted piece re: a heavy subject.
Re: "The only positive in this all/ might be a lesson learned..." I tend to agree.
When I despair, I tell myself that perhaps Chump will Make America Great, again, unwittingly, by bringing about a Reevaluation of Values.
The peaceful, powerful Women’s March on Washington, DC, dwarfing in number those who attended his inauguration and echoing throughout the US as well as the world, seems to suggest that it might be safe to hope for change, again. Heartening, too, to witness impassioned rallies in airports throughout the country welcoming immigrants and protesting Trump’s unconstitutional executive order or “Muslim Ban.”
Further, provoked by his administration’s disregard for science and denial of climate change, we saw the Scientists’ March. The list is long and it goes on. For our part, as writers, we do what we can to promote peace and offer up our form of literary activism.
In solidarity, Yahia
Well his followers are not coming around to reality and may never. At this point I think our only hope is to get the 80+ million of non registered voters to do that and get the disenfranchised registered voters to the polls. With the gerrymandering and voter suppression laws .. we simply have to over whelm the polls. I think our turn out numbers never hit more than like 40% even in a presidential election year. Sad
Thanks @yahialababidi! We're in total agreement about the positives that are coming about from his Presidency. I really hope it wakes people up here in the U.S. Hard to believe we have two more years. It feels like he's been in office for 10 years already.
Sigh Yes, Time crawls when we're not having fun! Hope we wake up, and soon...