The Morning After – No TV Today. Rather, Let Our Voices Be Heard.

I won’t read the papers today. Nor will I visit the usual blogs and the projections of  FiveThirtyEight.com.

This morning I sent letters to several activist progressive friends of whom I am very proud.  I won’t reveal names for fear of neglecting any who may be equally deserving for their efforts on behalf of progressive candidates.

I will also communicate to NCDC and SCDC, once they have stopped licking their wounds, about their ongoing reluctance to identify, nurture, and meaningfully support a candidate who can reasonably be expected to challenge and defeat Peter King.

In the coming months we need to come together around a large number of critical issues (my short list; add to the list as you may):

• When our president proposes legislation aimed at creating jobs and supporting small business and at building and rebuilding infrastructure, WE must let our voices be heard.
• When our president proposes well-reasoned tax reform, WE must let our voices be heard.
• When our president proposes regulations focused on preventing certain industries and their lobbyists from taking advantage of Americans, WE must let our voices be heard.
• When our president proposes legislation that favors the environment over the profiteers fighting climate change, WE must let our voices be heard.
• When our president fights to maintain and refine health care reform, WE must let our voices be heard.
• When our president works to bring American troops home, WE must let our voices be heard.
• When our president proposes a new round of stimulus money,  WE must let our voices be heard.
• When our president fights to save Social Security and offers reasonable solutions to problems with entitlement funding, WE must let our voices be heard.
• When our president argues against the Supreme Court’s ‘Citizens United’ decision, WE must let our voices be heard.

This is hardly the time to tuck our tails between our legs.

This is absolutely the time to say loudly and persistently that which we should have been saying louder and more effectively all along.

Our president needs to hear our voices.  Four decades later we need to heed the call of John Kennedy to the just-plain-folk to ‘DO what we can for our country’.

Or we’ll be doomed to repeat yesterday’s mistakes.

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