In the days following the presidential election, one prevailing sentiment from the right - that is, those people who have set themselves in opposition to the “left”, for lack of any better definition in this shifting landscape of values that we inhabit - has been that the left suffers from TDS, or Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Chris- This deserves a whole letter, but since I've already spent too much time on the computer, I'll give you to things from other people that I think stand as good direction of what to do.
First: EB White, always a better writer, more elegant, saying more with fewer words than I ever will: "As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman, the contagion may spread and the scene is not desolate. Hope is the thing that is left to us, in a bad time."
Second from Graham Moss of Oldham, UK: "No matter who is elected, our job remains the same, to act with courage and imagination, resist evil, and stand and work for virtue and justice. Nothing prevents us from doing that; our duty always remains unchanged."
Thank you, Chris, and yes, I will stand up, and will look for ways to stay standing, for justice and to resist evil. There are, to adopt a phrase from poet and anti-war activist Denise Levertov, candles in this Babylon of ours. Candles of hope which we will keep lit.
Chris- This deserves a whole letter, but since I've already spent too much time on the computer, I'll give you to things from other people that I think stand as good direction of what to do.
First: EB White, always a better writer, more elegant, saying more with fewer words than I ever will: "As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman, the contagion may spread and the scene is not desolate. Hope is the thing that is left to us, in a bad time."
Second from Graham Moss of Oldham, UK: "No matter who is elected, our job remains the same, to act with courage and imagination, resist evil, and stand and work for virtue and justice. Nothing prevents us from doing that; our duty always remains unchanged."
-Bruce
Thank you, Chris, and yes, I will stand up, and will look for ways to stay standing, for justice and to resist evil. There are, to adopt a phrase from poet and anti-war activist Denise Levertov, candles in this Babylon of ours. Candles of hope which we will keep lit.