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• • We have the power to shape the civilization that we want. But we need your will, your labor, your hearts, if we are to build that kind of society.
• President Lyndon Johnson, May 22, 1964,
• University of Michigan Commencement speech,
• announcing the Great Society program

Do you want “that kind of society”? Because if you want rule by thugs; if you want people snatched off our streets by unidentified brutes, this without regard for the rule of law, without an arrest warrant, without representation, without any of the things guaranteed by our Constitution, then “that kid of society” isn’t on your radar. Only survival of the cruelest is within your view. If that’s what you want, you don’t have to lift a finger.

But you aren’t like that.

Don’t misunderstand. I was no fan of Lyndon Johnson. Once I finished college he wanted to ship me off to Viet Nam to kill and/or be killed in his illegal, unwinnable, vanity project war. No, thank you. But he wasn’t wrong about everything. He was right about the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act. And he was right about making this a better, aspirationally Great Society – “that kind of society.”

And he was right, that “we need your will, your labor, your hearts.” So, I have an idea.

So many of us are disgusted by what we see going on, but we don’t know what to do to stop it, to reverse course back the country we believe in. We’re inundated with candidates and organizations pleading for our donations and, of course, we can help that way. Beyond that, what can you do? What action can you take? Who can give you the direction you need? I have a little idea for that.

Start with your answer to this question: What do you care about? I mean really care about. Gun safety? Illegal wars? The impossible challenge of having adequate supplies for life, like food, medical care and gas to get to work. Like elected officials lying to you, cheating you, cheating your country and more.

Name for yourself the key issue you have passion about.

Now, here’s the action step. Contact an organization the focuses on your key issue and ask them how you can help, beyond throwing some money their way. Go ahead. Make the call. Then  bring “your will, your labor, your heart”. Get up and get out to overwhelm the usurpers this November.

The time for action is NOW!

Keep standing up,

speaking out

and taking action

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