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Wednesday, November 9, 2016

Day 1: What can I do?

These are the first words I wrote on Facebook after succumbing to the reality that we just elected Donald Trump.
I have to be honest with myself and I hope everyone can be as well. These are questions I must ask myself: 
If we spend most of our lives calling our political system a fallacy, why would we expect it to succeed when we want it to? 
If we spend most of our lives taking little political action, why would we expect it to succeed when we want it to? 
If we spend most of our time being active on social media instead being active in politics, why are we surprised that there is such a large disparity between our social views and our political outcomes? 
Logic leads me to believe that things can only change when the amount of effort put into it necessitates change, not when we want it to be that way. 
Are we going to take action for a difference tomorrow or hope for a difference tomorrow? 
What am I, you, we doing that is going to change tomorrow?

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