The price for denying the GOP a border wall is countless children.
The justification grows feebler. Jeff Sessions truly is suffering the little
children, though he is not among them. National outrage has not trumped this
inhumanity. It can end only at the ballot box.
Twenty weeks left to midterm elections. Twenty weeks to
changing the mindset of Congress; returning to principled actions, purging
border patrol agents who say only citizens can ride a bus.
Please find something you can do to help. Google a local
chapter of your congress representative’s office. Find where they stand on
immigration, health care, drug cost, free trade,
wages, DACA—all these issues that are our lives.
If your representative does not
represent your point of view, call the opposition’s office. Volunteer to do
office work, maintain files, man the phones.
For the first time ever, I’ll be on the phone for my
Senator, Sherrod Brown.
I think the most important thing we can do for this fall,
though, is get high school children who are old enough registered to vote. I
Googled that, too, read the possibilities, and picked the League of Women
Voters as my best way to get to the eligible young people and get them
registered.
Look into an organization called Spread the Vote. It takes
ID to move around this country these days, and many states require ID to vote.
My state does. Years ago Ohio accepted a current utility bill. Now it’s a
driver’s license or state issued ID. I took some of my grandchildren for state
issued ID’s, before they had driver’s licenses. See if you can help at Spread
the Vote.
I think the best way to spend the next twenty weeks is to prepare.
We are the rear guard. Only November will show how well we are prepared.
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