Wandering Along the Path: Right Speech

Yes, January sixth haunts me, as it does so many of us. I'm glad the President and Vice President have spoken up, because the reconciation effort has proved fruitless. Reason, facts and logic are not what Republicans want to hear. They want to play games with our democracy, for their own benefit, not those of their constituents. We have to keep speaking the truth, so that the discourse is not dominated by lies and distortions. This situation is sadder and more serious than Covid. We are not honoring our Constitution and rule of law. We have a precious, always fragile democracy, and people are actively undermining voters and our governmental process. These far right persons are ignoring their oaths and responsibilities in order to shore up power to remake our country into a place where only the rich get a say in what happens, and the poor are held in contempt. It's a very different environment from the Depression of the 1930s, when government lifted people up and made them feel valued. Is it fear of change, fear of a multicultural country, fear of priviledge withdrawn, or some horrible combination of the Internet and it's lies and fantasies that has loosed this terrible, selfish, uncompassionate wave. I know we must, like the Little Dutch Boy, hold back the crack from breaking apart our foundation, to save us all from drowning.