What do we do daddy? I'm crying.
Those were the words I awoke to this morning.
My daughter, like millions of American children,
has not just witnessed the election of a president who has openly
bullied women, Latinos, Blacks, Muslims, the parents of war heroes, and
many other groups of Americans. She has watched his rhetoric change the
atmosphere on her playground as children mimic his hate like mocking
birds. It hurts her. It scares her.
My response to her: Dry your tears. A better day will come. We must all pull together to make it happen.
How? She asked. I told her we would discuss it tonight. Here is what I will try to explain to her in simpler terms:
The resistance begins today.
We must take Trump at his word. He has promised
to assail the rights of women and minorities, expand coal mining and
fracking, build the equivalent of the Berlin Wall between us and Mexico,
said he does not believe in a Federal minimum wage, and threatened to
escalate our conflicts abroad. His respect for the US Constitution is
questionable at best.
We must build the most robust movements we have
ever known to defend our rights and those of our neighbors, protect our
planet, end poverty, and shift the world away from war and towards
peace.
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