RIP Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Sep. 18th, 2020 09:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dewlineI don't know that I want to care about which calendar system we're operating under right now.
Her death is a sad thing in and of itself, and the timing of it, the consequences of it terrify so many of my American friends right now. They terrify me.
We have to turn that fear from a paralytic to a carefully aimed goad to righteous action. And we need to do that right now. And I expect there are people who have already made their own plans to counter the expected and announced plans of Trump and McConnell and who knows who else.
Maybe some of you reading this.
We cannot surrender to any empty heart in these of all days. We dare not.
Her death is a sad thing in and of itself, and the timing of it, the consequences of it terrify so many of my American friends right now. They terrify me.
We have to turn that fear from a paralytic to a carefully aimed goad to righteous action. And we need to do that right now. And I expect there are people who have already made their own plans to counter the expected and announced plans of Trump and McConnell and who knows who else.
Maybe some of you reading this.
We cannot surrender to any empty heart in these of all days. We dare not.
