A Canadian's plea to all Americans - left, right, or independent:
Pardon my shouting out so rudely but this needs to be heard over the noise of all this intolerably quiet complacency:
" SILENCE IS COMPLICITY AND COMPLICITY IS WHAT HISTORY WRITES DOWN! ".
Take a moment to let this statement resonate in your mind. Look back at the times your fore-bearers freely gave their lives to preserve the most precious thing they had: FREEDOM!!!
Remember what silence has allowed to to fester in the past. Fascists like Hitler and Mussolini. Infamous dictators like Stalin, Mao Zedong, Kim Jong-il etc. etc. All responsible for millions of deaths while grasping for the power of life and death over regular people just like you and me.
Look at the regime gutting your freedoms, your inalienable rights encased in the Constitution of the United States. Unapologetically attempting to reduce your Constitution to a powerless piece of scrap paper destined, if successful, for the garbage bin of history.
Silence allows despicable acts to proliferate and become normalized over time. Lies told repeatably and loud enough begin to sound like truths. You have eyes to SEE, ears to HEAR and a voice to proclaim: ENOUGH!
Look around you.....are you happy, better off financially, will your children have a better life from the decisions this government is trying to force through now. Really think about this objectively.
YOU are the last defence for American democracy. Listen. Read and discuss. Think about how change affects you...is it good for you, your family, friends and America and ultimately our precious (not so indestructible) world.
When it's time, VOTE.
Every ballot counts. Preserve " The Great American Experiment " so it may continue for another 250 years of innovation and dedication to freedom and the inalienable rights of every individual on this planet.
Thank you, Mitch. I am on the other side of the world.
But your thinking, logic, and gentle arguments for those lost in the lies apply globally. We have a local politician, Pauline Hanson, riffing on the Trump playbook, funded by right-wing billionaires.
I'm supporting a young group trying to get other young people involved in community-led activism (just don't call it politics!) - to realise that they can have an impact on this world, starting in their own community.
We will use this post as an input to some of our work.
Thank you for helping people see, think, act - for a better world
The opening lines from one of my favorite songs by The Chicks (fka The Dixie Chicks) is "Forgive? Sounds good. Forget? I'm not sure I could." Those who do the right thing by publicly repudiating the man they once supported will certainly be doing the right thing. But I'm not sure that will ever be able to forgive them for the destruction their votes and visible support for him has brought about. And I know that I will never be able to forget. In this regard, your invitation to these individuals may make you a better person than am I. So I'll do my best to follow your lead, though.
At the same time, it's not just their support for the man that is troublesome. It's the support for his performance in certain areas. For example, in aggregate, across multiple polls, 45% of the voting population approve of his handling of immigration. Seriously? That many people are okay with the fact that not only did the President lie on the campaign trail about going after "the worst of the worst," people have been killed and seriously wounded by ICE agents, including U.S. citizens and people who are in this country legally.
Meanwhile, somehow, 37.4% and 37.1%, respectively approve of his handling of Iran and Russia/Ukraine. Seriously? We've had multiple U.S. soldiers killed (the county is fuzzy because the Administration changes its reporting on it) and hundreds injured in the Iranian conflict... why? This President hasn't been able to make a compelling, consistent argument for it. And his on-again, off-again support for Ukraine has likely contributed to that war dragging on.
And while it's not an issue that's featured in polls, the assault on DEI - which includes policy decisions harmful to people with disabilities - is simply shameful. Yet his supporters keep cheering about it.
Issue after issue, just over a third of this country (at least those polled) keeps hanging in there with him, even as many of them no longer sport a red cap, put away the flags, and peeled off the bumper sticker.
We need the roughly 60% of voters to come out in huge numbers this November and vote like everything is on the line, because everything is. As for the one-third (plus), forgiveness won't come easy; forgetting isn't an option.
(Above poll numbers from the polling aggregator, RealClear Polling.)
Those who were anxious to believe that he was going to turn society back 80 years, or so, and are still fearfull of immigrants and love the victimization he advocated for them (the original MAGAs), are going to still believe in their cult leader. The religious leaders who gave him their support in return for Supreme Court picks and conservative religious advocacy, are not going to admit that they made a deal with the devil. That I would contend is your 37%. People who are afraid to be objective, cannot accept change, and are the most dangerous people you can have in a democracy.
Your letter has been rattling around in my head because I've been wrestling with a version of this question for more than twenty-five years.
Unlike you, I don't have the luxury of speaking entirely as a private citizen.
I've spent nearly thirty years in the United States Air Force. My father was actually my recruiter. My military career has been unusual. I started in the Reserve, one weekend a month and two weeks a year. After Don't Ask Don't Tell was repealed and President Obama was reelected, I fulfilled a dream I'd carried for years and entered Active Duty. The military has been extraordinarily good to me. It gave me opportunities, purpose, lifelong friends, and a career I am deeply proud of.
Ironically, some of my deepest political convictions were shaped long before that.
When the Supreme Court decided Bush v. Gore, I genuinely believed George W. Bush was going to be the worst president in modern American history. Around that same period I came out to my father, a lifelong Fox News viewer and my own Air Force Reserve recruiter. He disowned me. He justified it by saying my being gay threatened his livelihood because he had recruited me.
I carried that hurt everywhere.
During the Bush years, my opposition consumed me. This was before Facebook gave everyone a megaphone, but I found ways to make my opinions known. Every drill weekend I pushed boundaries. Every conversation became political. I was convinced I was fighting for what was right.
Looking back, I don't regret caring.
I regret becoming consumed.
The anger didn't persuade anyone. It didn't heal my relationship with my father. It didn't make me happier. It didn't make me a better Airman, a better friend, or a better human being.
It just made me angry.
When President Obama was elected and Don't Ask Don't Tell was finally repealed, I honestly believed our country had turned a page. I thought we had acknowledged painful mistakes and were choosing to become a little kinder to one another.
Then came 2016.
I still remember the atmosphere inside the Pentagon after the election. It genuinely felt like a funeral. People were hugging in hallways. Some wore black. There was a profound sense that something fundamental had changed.
Then one of my coworkers, someone whose backyard wedding I had photographed only weeks earlier, walked into my office and said, "I don't understand why everyone is so upset. They're acting like just because you support him people think you're racist, xenophobic, or homophobic."
I remember sitting there stunned.
Not because she had supported him.
Because I realized I had completely misunderstood someone I thought I knew.
That moment taught me something uncomfortable. Politics has an incredible ability to reveal differences we never imagined existed, but it also has an incredible ability to convince us that every disagreement must become a permanent fracture.
This time, I made myself a promise.
I would not become the version of myself I had been during the Bush years.
Not because I cared any less.
Because I had learned that constant outrage had accomplished almost nothing except making me miserable.
Today, I occupy an even stranger place.
As a member of the military, I swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution, not any individual president. At the same time, I have professional obligations that limit what I can publicly say about the Commander in Chief. That isn't oppression. It's part of serving in an institution that must remain politically neutral.
So while others are free to post, argue, and protest however they choose, I often remain silent.
Some people mistake that silence for agreement.
It isn't.
Sometimes it's simply duty.
I'm also three years away from retirement. That retirement means a pension, health care for my husband and me, and the security we've spent decades building together. Throwing all of that away for one angry Facebook post wouldn't serve either of us.
So here's the question I've been wrestling with.
If someone believes democracy, constitutional norms, or the character of our leaders truly matter, but they're also bound by professional obligations that require restraint, what does responsible citizenship actually look like?
How do you educate without becoming consumed?
How do you persuade without becoming self-righteous?
How do you remain engaged without allowing politics to become your entire identity?
I've already lived one version of political obsession.
I don't want to live another.
You wrote your letter as a friend.
So let me ask, friend to friend:
What would you tell someone in my position?
Someone who cares deeply.
Someone who cannot simply say whatever he wants.
Someone who has learned that outrage is emotionally satisfying but rarely persuasive.
What does effective citizenship look like then?
Because after thirty years of serving this country, that's the question I'm still trying to answer.
My late husband allowed his outrage to consume him. The night Obama was elected was the same night that California voters - many confused by the wording of the proposition - voted to ban gay marriage. My white, heterosexual, 67-year-old husband was so angry, he went to the headquarters of "No on 8" and to grab several yard signs and bumper stickers. He placed the signs all over our front yard and the stickers all over our garage. It was the equivalent of giving the middle finger to the neighbors across the street who had a "Yes on Prop 8" sign on their lawn. Those neighbors didn't so much as wave at us for 10 years and only then it was just the wife who would.
His anger gradually subsided until Trump and then it came back stronger than ever. Thankfully, Biden was elected in '20, and my spouse was able to watch the inauguration, while severely ill with COVID. He entered the hospital that night and died 10 days later. (Sadly, my Mom - a lifetime Biden fan - died a month before he was elected.)
While I understood my husband's anger over Prop 8, and then over Trump, my all-consuming job didn't allow space for all-consuming anger, and his anger made me both sad and infuriated. But now? It would be easy to follow his lead but I fight that urge every day.
First, I'm so sorry for the loss of your husband and your mom. To lose them so close together must have been unimaginably difficult.
Your story really resonated with me because I recognize so much of myself in your husband. During the Bush years, I let my outrage become part of my identity. I don't regret caring deeply, but I do regret how much space I allowed that anger to occupy in my life. It didn't change many minds, and it certainly didn't make me happier.
One of the hardest lessons I've had to learn is that anger can be justified and still become unhealthy. That's a difficult balance to strike, especially when you genuinely believe something important is at stake.
I smiled a little imagining those Prop 8 signs in your yard. 😊 It says a lot about the kind of ally your husband was. But I also understand what you mean about living alongside that constant outrage. It takes a toll on the people carrying it and on the people who love them.
I don't have the perfect answer either. Like you, I fight the urge every day. I'm trying to channel that energy into conversations that might actually reach someone instead of simply feeding my own frustration.
Thank you again for sharing such a personal story. It meant a lot to me. ❤️
I was praying that our military would turn on him representing dictatorship and not an American President in spring 2025. I was hoping for a clean cut through the Army and a fresh restart…. till a friend of mine in the active military told me that this would not happen till the President would order to shoot against Americans. That’s when I realized why he is building ICE….
That something, the sensibility of a negative change, was well founded. He and his cronies told everyone what that something would be: an illegal agenda called #project2025, to capture unilateral power, to dismantle the U.S. government for their gain. The oath you took doesn't go away after retirement. I am afraid you know the answer, but at the same time, their situation (their lawlessness) has placed all of us in uncharted territory.
I like the way that you list examples of people who worked with Trump who came out strongly against Trump. Good role models that MAGA should appreciate and emulate.
If this sober-minded call-to-action🙏 — even inaction undoing hurtful action🛑 — does not crack the cult of personality, then nothing will.⚖️ Good job, @Mitch Jackson!✌️
I experienced this personally over the weekend with a friend. Just having this conversation clarified for him what he needed to do next, and he did. I think he just needed a reason to give himself permission to do the right thing. Since we are only 99 days away from the midterm elections, I thought I'd share it here on Substack too.
"We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.” --President Abraham Lincoln, March 1861.
G-D bless you, Sir. 😇Admitting that one is wrong-headed and needs to change is difficult and unsettling for most people (e.g., me) to do. 😳 A conciliatory approach taken by another whom one trusts enables change as an opportunity for release from his or personal pillory. 🗽
Voters need to 86 GOP supporters of a sociopathic narcissist bent on ratcheting up a forever war they don’t want, burying them in new taxes (tariffs) that worsen their struggle to get by, and plundering the treasury to glorify himself with garish monuments and tacky tributes that have marred the nation’s capitol.
MAGAs reject science wreck the economy balloon the deficit & transfer wealth to the wealthiest.
And we vote in 99 days. It's not going to be easy, but we're going to get things fixed. New Congressional oversight, control over the power of the purse, and separation of powers will change everything.
Thank you for the clarity and tone and thoroughness. Well done.
A Canadian's plea to all Americans - left, right, or independent:
Pardon my shouting out so rudely but this needs to be heard over the noise of all this intolerably quiet complacency:
" SILENCE IS COMPLICITY AND COMPLICITY IS WHAT HISTORY WRITES DOWN! ".
Take a moment to let this statement resonate in your mind. Look back at the times your fore-bearers freely gave their lives to preserve the most precious thing they had: FREEDOM!!!
Remember what silence has allowed to to fester in the past. Fascists like Hitler and Mussolini. Infamous dictators like Stalin, Mao Zedong, Kim Jong-il etc. etc. All responsible for millions of deaths while grasping for the power of life and death over regular people just like you and me.
Look at the regime gutting your freedoms, your inalienable rights encased in the Constitution of the United States. Unapologetically attempting to reduce your Constitution to a powerless piece of scrap paper destined, if successful, for the garbage bin of history.
Silence allows despicable acts to proliferate and become normalized over time. Lies told repeatably and loud enough begin to sound like truths. You have eyes to SEE, ears to HEAR and a voice to proclaim: ENOUGH!
Look around you.....are you happy, better off financially, will your children have a better life from the decisions this government is trying to force through now. Really think about this objectively.
YOU are the last defence for American democracy. Listen. Read and discuss. Think about how change affects you...is it good for you, your family, friends and America and ultimately our precious (not so indestructible) world.
When it's time, VOTE.
Every ballot counts. Preserve " The Great American Experiment " so it may continue for another 250 years of innovation and dedication to freedom and the inalienable rights of every individual on this planet.
Thank you, Mitch. I am on the other side of the world.
But your thinking, logic, and gentle arguments for those lost in the lies apply globally. We have a local politician, Pauline Hanson, riffing on the Trump playbook, funded by right-wing billionaires.
I'm supporting a young group trying to get other young people involved in community-led activism (just don't call it politics!) - to realise that they can have an impact on this world, starting in their own community.
We will use this post as an input to some of our work.
Thank you for helping people see, think, act - for a better world
I love this- and I have the perfect person to send it to…. 🙏💪🇺🇸
Phenomenal post. Saving it to tailor it for my relatives.
What a great post! Thank you!
The opening lines from one of my favorite songs by The Chicks (fka The Dixie Chicks) is "Forgive? Sounds good. Forget? I'm not sure I could." Those who do the right thing by publicly repudiating the man they once supported will certainly be doing the right thing. But I'm not sure that will ever be able to forgive them for the destruction their votes and visible support for him has brought about. And I know that I will never be able to forget. In this regard, your invitation to these individuals may make you a better person than am I. So I'll do my best to follow your lead, though.
At the same time, it's not just their support for the man that is troublesome. It's the support for his performance in certain areas. For example, in aggregate, across multiple polls, 45% of the voting population approve of his handling of immigration. Seriously? That many people are okay with the fact that not only did the President lie on the campaign trail about going after "the worst of the worst," people have been killed and seriously wounded by ICE agents, including U.S. citizens and people who are in this country legally.
Meanwhile, somehow, 37.4% and 37.1%, respectively approve of his handling of Iran and Russia/Ukraine. Seriously? We've had multiple U.S. soldiers killed (the county is fuzzy because the Administration changes its reporting on it) and hundreds injured in the Iranian conflict... why? This President hasn't been able to make a compelling, consistent argument for it. And his on-again, off-again support for Ukraine has likely contributed to that war dragging on.
And while it's not an issue that's featured in polls, the assault on DEI - which includes policy decisions harmful to people with disabilities - is simply shameful. Yet his supporters keep cheering about it.
Issue after issue, just over a third of this country (at least those polled) keeps hanging in there with him, even as many of them no longer sport a red cap, put away the flags, and peeled off the bumper sticker.
We need the roughly 60% of voters to come out in huge numbers this November and vote like everything is on the line, because everything is. As for the one-third (plus), forgiveness won't come easy; forgetting isn't an option.
(Above poll numbers from the polling aggregator, RealClear Polling.)
Those who were anxious to believe that he was going to turn society back 80 years, or so, and are still fearfull of immigrants and love the victimization he advocated for them (the original MAGAs), are going to still believe in their cult leader. The religious leaders who gave him their support in return for Supreme Court picks and conservative religious advocacy, are not going to admit that they made a deal with the devil. That I would contend is your 37%. People who are afraid to be objective, cannot accept change, and are the most dangerous people you can have in a democracy.
Great article. 🇨🇦
this is one of the best articles I’ve ever read
Thank you, Mitch. Excellent. A+++
Mitch,
Your letter has been rattling around in my head because I've been wrestling with a version of this question for more than twenty-five years.
Unlike you, I don't have the luxury of speaking entirely as a private citizen.
I've spent nearly thirty years in the United States Air Force. My father was actually my recruiter. My military career has been unusual. I started in the Reserve, one weekend a month and two weeks a year. After Don't Ask Don't Tell was repealed and President Obama was reelected, I fulfilled a dream I'd carried for years and entered Active Duty. The military has been extraordinarily good to me. It gave me opportunities, purpose, lifelong friends, and a career I am deeply proud of.
Ironically, some of my deepest political convictions were shaped long before that.
When the Supreme Court decided Bush v. Gore, I genuinely believed George W. Bush was going to be the worst president in modern American history. Around that same period I came out to my father, a lifelong Fox News viewer and my own Air Force Reserve recruiter. He disowned me. He justified it by saying my being gay threatened his livelihood because he had recruited me.
I carried that hurt everywhere.
During the Bush years, my opposition consumed me. This was before Facebook gave everyone a megaphone, but I found ways to make my opinions known. Every drill weekend I pushed boundaries. Every conversation became political. I was convinced I was fighting for what was right.
Looking back, I don't regret caring.
I regret becoming consumed.
The anger didn't persuade anyone. It didn't heal my relationship with my father. It didn't make me happier. It didn't make me a better Airman, a better friend, or a better human being.
It just made me angry.
When President Obama was elected and Don't Ask Don't Tell was finally repealed, I honestly believed our country had turned a page. I thought we had acknowledged painful mistakes and were choosing to become a little kinder to one another.
Then came 2016.
I still remember the atmosphere inside the Pentagon after the election. It genuinely felt like a funeral. People were hugging in hallways. Some wore black. There was a profound sense that something fundamental had changed.
Then one of my coworkers, someone whose backyard wedding I had photographed only weeks earlier, walked into my office and said, "I don't understand why everyone is so upset. They're acting like just because you support him people think you're racist, xenophobic, or homophobic."
I remember sitting there stunned.
Not because she had supported him.
Because I realized I had completely misunderstood someone I thought I knew.
That moment taught me something uncomfortable. Politics has an incredible ability to reveal differences we never imagined existed, but it also has an incredible ability to convince us that every disagreement must become a permanent fracture.
This time, I made myself a promise.
I would not become the version of myself I had been during the Bush years.
Not because I cared any less.
Because I had learned that constant outrage had accomplished almost nothing except making me miserable.
Today, I occupy an even stranger place.
As a member of the military, I swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution, not any individual president. At the same time, I have professional obligations that limit what I can publicly say about the Commander in Chief. That isn't oppression. It's part of serving in an institution that must remain politically neutral.
So while others are free to post, argue, and protest however they choose, I often remain silent.
Some people mistake that silence for agreement.
It isn't.
Sometimes it's simply duty.
I'm also three years away from retirement. That retirement means a pension, health care for my husband and me, and the security we've spent decades building together. Throwing all of that away for one angry Facebook post wouldn't serve either of us.
So here's the question I've been wrestling with.
If someone believes democracy, constitutional norms, or the character of our leaders truly matter, but they're also bound by professional obligations that require restraint, what does responsible citizenship actually look like?
How do you educate without becoming consumed?
How do you persuade without becoming self-righteous?
How do you remain engaged without allowing politics to become your entire identity?
I've already lived one version of political obsession.
I don't want to live another.
You wrote your letter as a friend.
So let me ask, friend to friend:
What would you tell someone in my position?
Someone who cares deeply.
Someone who cannot simply say whatever he wants.
Someone who has learned that outrage is emotionally satisfying but rarely persuasive.
What does effective citizenship look like then?
Because after thirty years of serving this country, that's the question I'm still trying to answer.
Thank you for sharing your story.
My late husband allowed his outrage to consume him. The night Obama was elected was the same night that California voters - many confused by the wording of the proposition - voted to ban gay marriage. My white, heterosexual, 67-year-old husband was so angry, he went to the headquarters of "No on 8" and to grab several yard signs and bumper stickers. He placed the signs all over our front yard and the stickers all over our garage. It was the equivalent of giving the middle finger to the neighbors across the street who had a "Yes on Prop 8" sign on their lawn. Those neighbors didn't so much as wave at us for 10 years and only then it was just the wife who would.
His anger gradually subsided until Trump and then it came back stronger than ever. Thankfully, Biden was elected in '20, and my spouse was able to watch the inauguration, while severely ill with COVID. He entered the hospital that night and died 10 days later. (Sadly, my Mom - a lifetime Biden fan - died a month before he was elected.)
While I understood my husband's anger over Prop 8, and then over Trump, my all-consuming job didn't allow space for all-consuming anger, and his anger made me both sad and infuriated. But now? It would be easy to follow his lead but I fight that urge every day.
But damn, it's hard.
Lori, thank you so much for sharing this. ❤️
First, I'm so sorry for the loss of your husband and your mom. To lose them so close together must have been unimaginably difficult.
Your story really resonated with me because I recognize so much of myself in your husband. During the Bush years, I let my outrage become part of my identity. I don't regret caring deeply, but I do regret how much space I allowed that anger to occupy in my life. It didn't change many minds, and it certainly didn't make me happier.
One of the hardest lessons I've had to learn is that anger can be justified and still become unhealthy. That's a difficult balance to strike, especially when you genuinely believe something important is at stake.
I smiled a little imagining those Prop 8 signs in your yard. 😊 It says a lot about the kind of ally your husband was. But I also understand what you mean about living alongside that constant outrage. It takes a toll on the people carrying it and on the people who love them.
I don't have the perfect answer either. Like you, I fight the urge every day. I'm trying to channel that energy into conversations that might actually reach someone instead of simply feeding my own frustration.
Thank you again for sharing such a personal story. It meant a lot to me. ❤️
I admit to being somewhat proud of my husband for all the signs. 🥰
I love the way you think.
I was praying that our military would turn on him representing dictatorship and not an American President in spring 2025. I was hoping for a clean cut through the Army and a fresh restart…. till a friend of mine in the active military told me that this would not happen till the President would order to shoot against Americans. That’s when I realized why he is building ICE….
That something, the sensibility of a negative change, was well founded. He and his cronies told everyone what that something would be: an illegal agenda called #project2025, to capture unilateral power, to dismantle the U.S. government for their gain. The oath you took doesn't go away after retirement. I am afraid you know the answer, but at the same time, their situation (their lawlessness) has placed all of us in uncharted territory.
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I like the way that you list examples of people who worked with Trump who came out strongly against Trump. Good role models that MAGA should appreciate and emulate.
It's hard to admit you were wrong. The "sunk cost" syndrome gets you every time.
Sunk costs still add up over time! Sunk cost, as part of economic theory, is highly misleading!
It's huge. Most won't. Some will. Either way, their reputation is on the line.
Amen.
If this sober-minded call-to-action🙏 — even inaction undoing hurtful action🛑 — does not crack the cult of personality, then nothing will.⚖️ Good job, @Mitch Jackson!✌️
I experienced this personally over the weekend with a friend. Just having this conversation clarified for him what he needed to do next, and he did. I think he just needed a reason to give himself permission to do the right thing. Since we are only 99 days away from the midterm elections, I thought I'd share it here on Substack too.
"We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.” --President Abraham Lincoln, March 1861.
G-D bless you, Sir. 😇Admitting that one is wrong-headed and needs to change is difficult and unsettling for most people (e.g., me) to do. 😳 A conciliatory approach taken by another whom one trusts enables change as an opportunity for release from his or personal pillory. 🗽
Voters need to 86 GOP supporters of a sociopathic narcissist bent on ratcheting up a forever war they don’t want, burying them in new taxes (tariffs) that worsen their struggle to get by, and plundering the treasury to glorify himself with garish monuments and tacky tributes that have marred the nation’s capitol.
MAGAs reject science wreck the economy balloon the deficit & transfer wealth to the wealthiest.
Dems: an order of magnitude better than the Trump & Co packs of depraved sociopaths. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_i38-qjtbI
Please, bring on a Blue Tsunami. #VoteBlue!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6ji9EFt9Lg
And we vote in 99 days. It's not going to be easy, but we're going to get things fixed. New Congressional oversight, control over the power of the purse, and separation of powers will change everything.