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A Case for Hope

So much has happened since my last post. I won't spend time recapping. What I'll say now is that I think there still can be a case of hope in the midst of all that is happening. Please know that these ideas are taken completely from elsewhere.  Many of my previous posts have ranted and raved about the decline of social capital and the lack of civic engagement in our society. I think this has drastically changed. It's improved out of necessity and improved over the very stark realities and societal context in which we're operating. Being under the grips of the most right-wing, overtly racist, embarrassing, disgraceful, destructive regime surely has woken up many.  And this matters. It matters so much now that we're organizing. That we can find a common narrative or story about what we need to do to survive and persist. It matters that we have young people who have survived traumas that they shouldn't have ever been exposed to and are now rapidly o...