The trump White House and the republican-controlled Congress are preparing to deliver on a corporate and ideologically extremist agenda that threatens our freedom, our democracy, our health care, our planet, our economic security and our most fundamental rights.
And, if you haven’t figured it out yet, they are serious about their regressive and repugnant policies and programs. With control of all branches of government, there’s no question they can and are quite willing to inflict some serious damage on the country.
What can they get away with? Well — that depends on us.
- First, we have to continue to mobilize. We have to turn out on the streets in unprecedented numbers to make visible our rejection of Trump’s extremist agenda.
- Second, we have to take care of each other. That means many things in a harsh political climate with a president who views bullying as a business, political and life strategy. Above all, it means all of us must stand together to reject efforts to denigrate, demagogue and discriminate against racial, ethnic and religious minorities. It means we must never allow the creation of a Muslim registry or anything comparable. It means we have to fight against heartless plans to tear families apart and deport millions of immigrants from our land. It means we must commit to embrace the value of solidarity.
- Third, we have to take action — not just once in a while, but constantly. We have to sign petitions, call and email members of Congress and other elected officials, write letters to the editor, talk to neighbors and co-workers, attend community meetings, turn out for local protests, and much more. And we have to keep doing it, over and over again.
- We need to identify individuals who will step up and run for office. We also need to back them with the funding to be able to run against well-funded and entrenched Republicans, get them the training they need to run, pound the pavement to help others understand ‘what’ they stand for and more importantly what they will ‘fight against.’
2018 is only a short time away and we need to be ready with candidates who are willing and capable to turn the carnage and pillage around. Pledge to commit yourself to action and to hold those who’ve been elected to be accountable to the ‘people’ and the Constitution and its values which they pledged to support.
We need to make members of Congress understand they will pay a political price for embracing the corporate extremist agenda.
We need to develop a broad united front to defend basic democratic principles now under threat.
We need to show Trump voters how President Trump is not only failing to deliver on the core promises of Candidate Trump — the claims that he would cure corruption and cronyism — but aggressively betraying them by pursuing a corporate extremist agenda that mocks the claims of the campaign.
Learn more about how you can make a difference in making Congress (and others) listen:
[embeddoc url=”http://www.humboldtdems.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/IndivisibleGuide_2016-12-29_v1.pdf” download=”all” viewer=”google”]