Yet, She Persisted

Imbolc                                                                                   Valentine Moon

Sessions confirmed. DeVos confirmed. Price is up next. Pruitt at some point will be up.

Elizabeth Warren is a symbol of the resistance. Her voice is my voice and I’m glad she’s in the congress to represent me. Bernie, too. And Senator Kirsten Gillibrand. Michael Bennet, my actual senator, needs to get more vocal. And Corey Gardner? He thinks all the people who call his office are paid protesters.

Even though I find Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar too centrist, still, I think we can count on her to resist Trump, too. Al Franken, Paul Wellstone’s old buddy, has done a remarkable turn in remaking himself from comedian to serious politician. Like Warren, he, too, has persisted. Some people are mentioning him as a 2020 presidential candidate.

The key to resistance is persistence. Fading away as fatigue sets in or as this terrible, no good, horrible presidential term tries to make normal the outrageous and corrupt, will only ensure Trump’s success.

We need to support those congressfolk who are leaders in the fight and we need to fight ourselves. In this case the ancientrail is opposition to bad leaders. It’s an old one, didn’t start with the 2016 election, but each time it becomes the trail on which we must walk, it’s critical to the future. As then, so now.