This is WAR

[NanceGreggs]

Where we are at as a nation is not a skirmish between different ideologies. This is not a parting of the ways between the “right” and the “left”. This is not a battle between Democrats v Republicans, liberals and conservatives.

This is WAR.

This is a war between truth-tellers and liars, between “alternate” facts and actual facts, between climate-change deniers and scientific evidence, between citizens who revere the Constitution and those who would trample it, between those who believe in freedom of thought and expression and those who believe in the suppression of any expression of thought contrary to any ideology they themselves embrace.

This is WAR.

There is no common ground shared by those who believe in GLBT rights and those who want GLBTers persecuted and/or prosecuted. There is no common ground shared by those who embrace diversity and those who want white supremacy. There is no common ground shared by those who respect all religions, or the choice not to be a “believer” at all, and those who want their religious beliefs to be the major influence on our government and its policies.

This is WAR.

We are no longer in a place where we can even pretend to “agree to disagree”, laugh it off, and get together for a couple of drinks. We are fighting an enemy who, as this last election has shown, want n*gg*rs at the back of the bus, want “homos” jailed, want immigrants ousted, want the Bible taught in place of science in our classrooms, want all social safety-nets shredded, and want people who can’t afford healthcare to crawl off somewhere and die.

This is WAR.

The enemy has so little respect for our country’s standing in the world, they elected an utter buffoon to its highest position, making us a global laughingstock. They have so little regard for our nation’s well-being, they put a mentally unstable man in the White House. They have so little concern for their fellow citizens, they have sat in silence as totally unqualified people have been put in charge of vitally important gov’t departments, or been appointed to positions they have no understanding of.

This is WAR.

Fight it when you can and where you can, and by whatever means you can. Write/call-email your elected reps, spread the word on social media, call out the liars, inform the ill-informed, march, protest, sign petitions – it all counts.

And remember – there are more of “us” than there are of “them”.