Overheard

Let's say you're in a room with 400 other Americans

• 36 don't have healthcare insurance
• 48 live at or under the poverty line
• 85 are illiterate or semi-literate
• every other day, 1 is injured or killed by gunshot

... but 2 of them are trans, so you decide that ruining their lives is your main concern.

That's what's happening in American politics right now.

Go Small To Play Big

A Biden/Harris window sticker, or a yard sign, or talking positively in casual conversation at the bar - these are all good for a coupla more votes.

But every time you shit-talk Biden, or politics in general - every time you complain about not having the choices you want - you're giving somebody else permission to stay home, or to write in Harold Stassen, or reason to believe the Both Sides bullshit, or whatever. So stop it.

When we can't count on 40-60% of Americans to show up and vote - the absolute least you can do to serve this country - over time, our little experiment in democratic self-governance ends with barely a whimper.

I'm not saying everybody needs to be a rah-rah for government. There's plenty about government in general - and this government in particular - that sucks.

So how do we change that?

In a democracy, we get to change that.

Get with a local campaign and write some postcards for somebody running for city council, or county commissioner, or state representative, or whatever.

Good things - and bad ones too - grow from the ground up.

Refusing to participate in democracy

is the same as voting against democracy.

And if you vote against democracy,

don't be surprised when you

never get to vote for it again.

Some Facts

• Trump negotiated directly with the Taliban terrorists, purposely excluding the Afghan Army and the government in Kabul
• Trump drew down US forces from 13,000 to 2,500, making them vulnerable to attack
• Trump ordered the release of 5,000 Taliban fighters from prison, one of whom would become the new leader of Afghanistan
• Trump invited Taliban leaders to Camp David on the 9/11 anniversary
• Trump agreed to a May 1st withdrawal, and then bragged about how he didn't have an exit strategy
• Trump refused to brief the incoming Biden team on the situation in Afghanistan
• Trump shut down all but one US airbase in Afghanistan, crippling our ability to extract our assets safely

Pay heed to the facts, not the bullshit.

GOTV