Today, we are supposed to be celebrating the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the birth of our nation and the freedoms granted by the Constitution of the United States. Today, this all feels like a joke. What can we possibly celebrate as millions of Americans are poised to lose the very services that allow them to be free, and millions have already lost those freedoms?
Today I will not be celebrating. Instead, I have set aside the day for grieving and prayer.
I know all of this is part of the death of the empire. I also hold on to the hope that this death will be clearing a way for something more just, compassionate, and free. Today, however, I just don’t see it. Those in power seem to be hell-bent on making America a home for the grotesquely wealthy at the expense of everyone else.
Instead of rambling on about all my heart of heart hopes this to be, please feel free to peruse my past writings about this death, or join me, as together we grieve the death of what we were told this nation could be.
I am with you in your grieving.
With love,
Lauri
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So who is getting organized to fight? Where are the people who are in a position to help grass roots organization???? The ice goons will be everywhere soon. What can we do as individuals other than sending money?
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I’m not sure money is even helping. The entire system is f*cked by special interest money. Our government no longer represent our interests. Only those who pay for their votes. It’s disgusting. All I hear rolling in my mind is the soundtrack to Les Mis “Do you hear the people sing, singing the song of angry men.”
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I just know next step is to stop the mid terms.
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He will use war as an excuse.
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I hope not, but this is likely. 😦
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I totally agree. I can’t stomach any sort of celebration today.
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It’s so hard!
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Thank you, Lauri, for posting this to remind us all of what we lost. I am not celebrating today. There is nothing to celebrate in this shameful, disgusting excuse of an administration that only has its own interest at the center of everything it does. Those of us who have the True America in our hearts are still keeping the dream alive – not in fireworks but in Prayers and in Hope that one day soon we will come back to dreams of our Forefathers and that America will be once again become the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave instead of the land of the feared and the home of the bigots.
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My prayers are the same as yours. What we are currently watching is heartbreaking!
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