Answers to Tough Questions #IamtheResistance #Pumpkinfuhrer #StrongerTogether

Yes, it's been a while since I've posted but I'll be posting a lot more in the coming days, weeks, and months. Here's an example of what I'll be doing. This was an answer I gave to a friend's post/meme on Facebook. Expect more of the same in the future.

There are issues on both sides here: First, I hate the party system because that is part of the problem but here goes...many Democrats don't really understand that there are people who truly can't buy food but the Republicans use that to forward their agenda without truly pushing the needs of the people to the front. It should never be us versus them. It should be WE THE PEOPLE. Those on the other side feel so disenfranchised because of that lack of understanding that it's flipped a switch in them which some can't turn off. Part of why they feel that way is the fact most politicians never come and talk to them. The group of younger people who run the YouTube Channel More Perfect Union (https://www.youtube.com/@moreperfectunion/videos) has done a much better job of seeing what's real than any group I've seen.

Second, it scares the hell out of me to hear you all talking this way. That attitude of ignoring this and not doing anything about this is EXACTLY what happened in the 1930s in Germany. People were tired of not having anything because of the war reparations. They were tired of not being heard. Hitler played into that and look what happened. And if you don't believe me, look it up. Look long and hard and what do you see? Many will see a reflection of themselves and that can go both ways. I know young teenage women who have been crying since the day the man, whom I will call Pumpkinfuhrer from this point on, was elected. I may be old, but I'm not hardened, and I know there are things I can do to ease their pain. I didn't before now, and I will never back down when I see wrong being done. Bad things happen when good people turn their back, no matter what their reasons are.

Yes, you are tired, and I get that. Yes, there seems to be too few of us, and I get that too. But until we can ignite those who want to remain silent, until we can get all of us on the same page, we must lead the pack by being the good ones who stood up while everyone around us stood still. And I'm only asking each of you to do what you can. If all you can do is to read or listen to an article or a person's podcast/YouTube video, then do that. Sign petitions. Like those videos, articles, and all you agree with. Call the police when you see something wrong. Don't let it go unnoticed because if you do, you have given them a license to do whatever they want over and over again. Not everyone can be in the resistance, I get that, but to ignore it all as if it's not happening is the reason we got here in the first place.

Third, I feel I have a moral obligation to protect my generation’s descendants. All of them. For me this is two-fold: one, my husband is a direct descendant of James Madison. When I heard that from my husband and his mother, I was just so excited to be related to Dolly Madison, I was beside myself. As the years have rolled on, I realize there is more to that relationship than I thought. It isn't enough to be part of that line, it's almost as if you can feel the Bill of Rights and Constitution rattle your soul. It's as if you get why those handful of men did what they did to get us where we are today. If we don't honor democracy as they did, who are we really and why are we here today?

I know that we're here today because of the inactions of my generation and the generations before. We wanted to live and let live. Let people have the full measure of living free. We wanted, but didn't fulfill the need, to give the American Dream to everyone. But we left a lot behind, we didn't fill the gaps. When we saw things that weren't directly related to us, even though they could have been bad, we did nothing. We didn't say anything to let those know involved that their actions weren't acceptable.

So honestly, this is a problem for all of us. We each of to take responsibility and only together can we solve this.

And yes, I am doing what I can. I am revamping sites I started the first time Pumpkinfuhrer was elected. Please be kind as I am revamping all of them. See, the first time around, I gave up too, and that was definitely the wrong thing to do.

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America ~ What have you done? ~ #LibertyDies #AmericaCries #StartingOver

So this is how liberty dies...with thunderous applause. ~ Princess Amidala, Star Wars 3

My country died tonight. The one I was born in, the one I grew up in, the one I fought to get back to when a job circumstance took me out of it. Many of you will think that I’m am wrong but let’s think about this for a moment from my perspective.

I am a true believer of the words written on the Statue of Liberty: Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!  The other things I truly believe in are government without religious interference, a place where I am free to make decisions about my own body, a country where there is no glass ceiling because I’m a woman, a country where all can get married that want to get married, a place that readily accepts the LGBTQ community without prejudice, a place for Hispanics as well as those of the Muslim faith and I truly believe the people of America have elected someone who will be the death of democracy.

Trump’s rhetoric wasn’t aimed at the populace who voted him in, mainly uneducated white Christian males. He just touched a nerve, played on their fears and frustrations made so by the system as it stands. No, it was aimed at the minorities that stand to lose the most. It was putting them on notice. We must keep them safe at all cost. We must keep their freedom safe at all cost. If we don’t, we are not keeping to the original tenets of this country. Times change and our outlook needs to change too of that I am sure. I am sorry if many don’t want it…too late…it’s here in a big, big way. Change this way is a slap in the face and it more than likely won’t give us the results we want.

There is room for everyone in this world, not matter who they are. It’s time to get race, sex, sexual orientation, political affiliation and religion off the table as judging tools and discord. This country needs to remember who we are…we the people…that’s who we are. We don’t give in, we don’t give up, we don’t elect those who won’t serve us all. We are hurting, though some of us are jubilant, but we’re all still we the people.

That means no matter who you are, you need to get along with your fellow Americans. We need to look beyond this election and realize the fact the fight isn’t over. The fight for good will never be over. The man who has been elected is repulsive and horrid and everything so many of us aren’t. We have to deal with it and use the system to fight him. Use our democracy to override what he wants and make it what we the people want. We need to make sure that this rich, arrogant man won’t stick it to each and every one of we the people.

I wish I could believe his speech as he accepted that he had won. But I can’t. I can’t because of his actions. He will need a lot of positive actions to get my support in any way, shape or form. I know you’re telling me to get over it, grieve, heal, move on…but something is telling me that I’m in the fight for my way of life…for the American way of life.