[Andrew Mandelbaum]

Michael,
You posted a poem and linked it to a specific moment in history. I called ****** on the implied suggestion that what these people need to do is calm down and go door to door talking to their opponents. I have absolutely no idea who you who are or what your genetic background is. Your idea is the target.
This is not a case of a populace who need to hear the truth to understand a viewpoint they are unfamiliar with. This is a protofascist where the deportation of millions is being discussed, hate crimes are soaring not in isolation but in homage to an election. This is the election of a man hailed by the Klan. This is moment when an openly played video tape of the future president speaking of sexual assault and misogyny did nothing but increase the vigor with which people voted for him. That so many hid their preferences before the election only underlines their knowledge of what they were accepting. This is an election that traumatizes victims of assualt with a symbolic promotion of their attackers. This is an election that will gut the few environmental safeguards we have left, an election of a evil clown car cabinet that now includes a Goebbels-like propagandist
as its chief adviser as if underlining the sort of **** this government will need to mask its intentions.

All this is not only door-to-door already, it is common knowledge injected into their cellphones and facebook feeds. This is not a crowd that is being moved by a napalmed photo of a small girl in the streets of Southeast Asia, that as they see the truth is overcome with remorse. This is a crowd salivating for revenge against imagined sleights done to their whiteness and their rightness by brown people, gay people, Muslims...hell...almost anybody but themselves and as they vote against their own healthcare and food stamps they even vote down their own social safety net.

Btw, it doesn't matter if your grandfather was Caesar Chavez and your mother lives in Tehran. If you are not going to openly oppose this stuff with the same fire and clarity as the folks who are bringing it, then your just another complicit huero writing everything-is-alright-checks out of somebody else's account.