During Donald Trump’s first term as president, his supporters, MAGA (Make America Great Again) Republicans, started calling pro-democracy folks “snowflakes.” They thought they were being clever. “Har, har, snowflakes are so fragile! They melt with a little heat. Lol!” True, snow melts with heat, as it has been doing these past few days in Minnesota. It’s the middle of February and we’ve got temps in the high 50 degrees Fahrenheit, about 30 to 40 degrees…
Nothing like a coup d’etat to get citizens engaged, eh? As our federal and state governments work hard – and rapidly – to strip the rights and societal protections of average Americans, we average Americans are stepping up, writing to legislators, marching, and making ourselves heard. Last week, I wrote postcards to my state legislators regarding a mute button that was installed at the State Capitol. This morning, I wrote to them about the Uniform…
When I was a kid, my mom used to laugh at me for yelling at the TV whenever I saw injustice playing out on shows. Yes, most of these shows were fiction, but I simply couldn’t stand the unfairness. One of my kindred spirits, a woman who could not tolerate injustice, is Eleanor Roosevelt. She died before I was born, but we share the same birthday, October 11, and I wrote a research paper on…