/5 So, in terrible circumstances, think what people before you have endured. Think about how you can support and defend folks less able than you to endure. And fight the bastards.
My father knew Michael Schwerner, and my great great grandfather fought with the 1st Minnesota (look 'em up). So I'm not letting them down. Already planning to work transporting and protecting people at polls in North Carolina.
/6 My grandparents didn’t whine about it. Nor, for that matter, did my college classmate who survived as a child in 1970s Cambodia by hiding in a pile of his neighbor’s bodies. So, keep calm and fight.
Things have gone to a dark place indeed when one's paradigm of hope is the bloodiest war in human history but take the silver linings where they can be found, I suppose
I love all this, but please operationalize "fight the bastards." When the bastards increasingly get to define what is legal, at what point will it be justified to do illegal things to fight them?
one thing I've learned during some rather personal difficulties over the last several years is that you focus on what you can manage/handle/fix, and you don't worry about what *might* happen until it actually happens. Doesn't mean you don't prepare, but you only have so much steam.
