Electing Kamala Harris is essential but we can’t stop there. That’s just our job for the fall of 2024.
Like many I went to bed Sunday night with increased hope that we had a real chance to beat Trump and Project 2025. That hope has only grown each day this week. This looks like it will be a crushing wave. Good. Fantastic. Let’s get to work.
But.
But let’s remember, due to OUR negligence and OUR lack of effort we have many crises to deal with beyond the 2024 election. OUR WORK is only beginning. Our political system is fundamentally broken. Our society is deeply fractured. Our planet is burning and our economy rooted in ever-increasing, unnecessary over-consumption. Our foreign policy is based on violent interventions and conflict profiteering. Our domestic policing is out of control. We have a real oligarchy to bring down.
Electing Kamala Harris is just what we do next. But then it’s on us to keep going. We’ve got decades of neglect to deal with. We the People have not been doing our job in regards to our various governments. We’ve not been nearly as active as we should be. Citizenship is not just voting for representatives that we hope will fix our problems for us. Voting is only one part of our job. Real and meaningful citizenship is what we can do any day of the week in our communities, where we live.