We the people are whole beings who cannot and will not be reduced to parts. As a country, our responsibility to ourselves and the freedom we hold so dear is to understand how we are complete. Our American sensibilities and culture have taught us all to be a community, looking out for one another, standing together against enemies both foreign and domestic.
For that reason, it is imperative to note that the majority of the protests, the marches, and the influx of ordinary people attending extraordinary town hall meetings are a grass roots, organic effort to stand for the values we feel make America so great.
Seeing the American people band together under the banner of hope and stability has been beautiful. Being a part of a movement which values individuals coming together is inspiring. There is a reason why so many still choose to flock here and make America their home.
-Abbey Barker.
Maybe this is the horrible purgative we needed.
9 comments:
i love it. both the poster and the sentiment. let's hope that deaf ears become unplugged. perhaps only such an abhorrent "leader" could be counted on to bring people together. have been obsessively on twitter of late and it seems that the voices that speak the loudest now are on the side of acceptance and inclusivity. the voices of the status quo spit nothing but vulgarity and ugliness, names and ad hominem attacks, because there is nothing else on their side. blind faith is just that: blind. for the most part, i see the side of critical thought and evidence-based decision-making responding not with similar invective but with more logical arguments. maybe eventually it will work?
this was certainly a wake up call.
twitter has a lot of bots and trolls, you can tell because they spout the same messages over and over. Block them, and you see the same avatars with the same unlikely names with more numbers showing up again. Most of us are doing the right thing.
I'm @zhonne, if you'd like to see the mess of activists I obsessively retweet. I won't be offended if you'd rather not.
i twote to you. twate? tweetened? it's so much fun to play with that word!
pc,
It's an amusing bunch of letters.
Keep on shouting.
Perhaps I should start Twittering , too ... given my usual skill with anything online , I could probably silence the big hugeness within hours !
S&S,
It's not a pretty place these days. But if you manage to break it, you might save the world!
When I first hopped on to Twittered, I told my friend that I had twittered my first twit. She . will . never . EVER . let me forget that. :)
Great poster. Lately each time I raise a glass of ale, the toast becomes, "to the resistance!"
Rou,
Persisting.
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