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Dr. Bronce Rice's avatar

Stephanie - I continue to marvel at your courage and your wisdom, especially your commitment to doing what’s right even as it can feel like our democracy is burning. Your voice, rooted in meaning and purpose, is a steadying force I find myself, and others here, deeply needing in these troubled waters. Thank you for this and so much more. And I hope you remember: I know what it’s like to shoulder things that matter.

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Alene N.'s avatar

Great post, Stephanie! I admire Maggie Kuhn, too. I believe young and old people need to work together to keep the energy and momentum for moving forward. Right now we have a backlash from a minority of fearful, undereducated, misinformed people who can’t handle the thought of change. They know how they’ve treated immigrants and people of color and women and LGBTQ+ people with contempt and they fear having the tables turned on them. They don’t see the value of diversity in our country, even though that’s what this country was supposedly founded on (even though the “Founding Fathers” really meant white men who were wealthy property owners). As an older person, I realize that the world is going to belong to the younger generations and I feel a duty to make it a better place for them, and to help them as long as I can in that endeavor. Politicians who have a literal death grip on power are doing the opposite.

Congress needs to be confronted in the face by citizens who give them an ultimatum: it’s us, or him. He’s not going to be around much longer, but we are here for the future. You work for us, not him. If you can’t work for our benefit, then get out now, before we force you out.

We need to follow up on that by changing the rules for members of Congress to make it less lucrative for them, like taking away their benefits after they leave office, make them struggle with crappy health insurance, for example. So many things…

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