As David Ignatius observed a few minutes ago on the Lawrence O'Donnell's Last Word, the Trump White House has systematically been working to dismantle the liberal democratic political structure of much of the international community. There's also the case of not taking our eyes off the ball at a global scale. Beyond that, I urge you to walk and chew gum at the same time. Īnyway, I'm not the only person who cringes when I see "No, that really important example of Trump and his Republican Minions taking away our rights and ruining the planet and garnering more and more wealth is just a distraction," or who hates it when an attempt at a conversation about politics gets shut down by well meaning and smart people because it wasn't what they were thinking about that day. We must defend the burrito, which is not a taco and not a wrap. Except they really aren't tacos, they are more like burritos. Oh, and today, for dinner, I'm going to make tacos. I want to see more good people run for more offices. Today, I started to process of encouraging someone in my school district to run for the board. I'll do what I can to make sure she is replaced by someone excellent, a Democrat, and I already know who it is. But I've done a couple of things and I'll do more. I've not done much about that yet, I just moved to her district. My state house representative is a seriously red tea-bagger. I am focused like a laser beam on making sure my bone-headed compatriots don't blindly put a Republican in office in 2018, and I've got my candidate. My fellow staters tend to switch parties every two terms, and we've had a Democrat in office for what will be 8 years. I frequently expend effort helping in the campaign for who I think should be the next Governor of my state. I also carry out an act or two to work towards replacing my Republican representative in Congress because he is vulnerable, we can switch this seat, and that may be part of changing Congress from Red to Blue. Every week I carry out a number of focused acts related to the climate change crisis.
Something like 9 out of 10 commenters told me to stop talking bout 2020, and to focus on 2018. I recently wrote a Facebook post bout the 2020 election. This theme plays out in other ways as well. Here are some examples of the distraction meme playing out on Twitter:
When Trump throws trans people under the bus, telling that is a distraction is YOU throwing trans people under the bus. The Trump administration is incapable of that much forethought and planning. Yes, distractions can happen, but most of what happens is not a distraction. I don't use clickbait titles very often, but this was one, because I want to talk to people who think that nine out of ten things that the collective known as Donald Trump, his white house staff, and the Republicans in Congress do is a distraction from.
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