Kip Fonsh: What are we doing during this time of foreboding?

The events of the past several weeks have given me pause to reflect on the future of this country.

The occupant of “The People’s House” has blatantly succumbed to crying, “The Other,” “The Communists,” “The UnAmericans,” and his fellow Republicans stand mute. Fear! Fear! Fear! of the other can be and is very powerful.

The resort to identity politics casts a long shadow of the politics of class and inequality. And of course racism.

I fear! Yes, I do. I fear that if there are future generations in a future U.S., they will ask what we did during this time of danger and foreboding. What will we answer? We can no longer rely on the Constitution that is merely a piece of paper, only as valid as the people entrusted with a commitment to upholding its principles. And those people have failed us. Time and time again. So, we must step up and demand and pledge that this criminality, corruption and dishonesty will no longer survive on our watch.

Are we ready for the challenge?

Kip Fonsh

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