Build a Longer Table

 

 

First, I wish you a happy Thanksgiving. It’s an opportunity for us to give thanks as well as to celebrate Indigenous peoples. And to extol our common good — the ideals that bind us together, rather than the xenophobia, racism, and misogyny that pull us apart. 

The Thanksgiving holiday is also an opportunity to become reenergized for the historic fight we face in coming months, when the anti-democracy forces of neofascism and bigotry seek to take over America. 

Please try to avoid two large traps that some people are already falling into: 

Denial. Some don’t want to accept that these anti-democracy forces are significant and growing, that Donald Trump has a realistic chance of being reelected president notwithstanding his attempted coup and upcoming criminal trials, and that if he succeeds, everything we believe in will be seriously threatened. 

But unless we see this for what it is, we cannot possibly summon the energy and determination necessary to stop Trumpist neofascism. 

Robert Reich.

 

https://open.substack.com/pub/robertreich/p/a-time-to-give-thanks-and-be-reenergized?