Ignore Alien Orders

 At some point, it is incumbent for all of us to do the things that will save our country from falling into ruin. 

Making memes to encourage all those people who already agree with you to release the Trumpstein Files will probably not be enough. 

Talking loudly about how there is such a thing as the Twenty-fifth Amendment will not be sufficient. 

Pointing and laughing should no longer be the actions that carry the day. 

We have passed too many mile markers on the road to chaos. 

The time has come for us to start looking at those who are in charge and start weeding out the weeds from the not-weeds. Agreeing with me is great, but what are we the people willing to do to ensure that a government by the people and for the people does not perish from this earth. 

I have taken my modest form of the fight to those elected officials whose job it is to change the metrics of our nation. When there are kinks in the hose, or when that hose that used to exist ceases to exist metaphorically, I take it as a personal attack. I have started sending more and more emails to the folks who represent me and my concerns in Congress. 

Being a squeaky wheel is probably not going to be sufficient. Showing up quarterly with cleverly worded signs to insist that we are a nation without kings may not be enough. Acts of protest that let the powers that be know that they aren't really the powers after all become more pressing. 

Vote. 

I sat in a classroom at the end of a long day and listened to a group of my co-workers confess that they did not vote in the last election. Their reasoning was based on a somewhat prevalent  notion that Kamala Harris was "just as bad" as Donald Juliet Trump. These folks insist that we would be in the precise situation that we find ourselves in had there been a different outcome to the 2024 election. I pressed a little to check to see if any of them had voted on California's recent re-districting plan. 

I followed that thread to ask them if there was anything that would get them off the couch to put their ballot in the mail. 

How about someone telling you that it should be more difficult to vote? Or that only certain folks should be allowed to vote? "Is that what they're saying?" came the moderately confused response. 

Use it or lose it. Question authority. We don't need to make America great again. We need to make America ours again.