Happy Easter, Threaders, Threadheads, and all in between. Coffee is nice.
A new tomorrow.
Four million people on a holiday weekend went into the streets to stand for the rule of law and due process. At last, tyranny is the main concern. Tyranny became a kitchen table issue. About time.
I watch Hamilton a lot. Like a favorite song that plays on repeat. Can’t help but to compare those revolutionary days with ours. We have a new king to defeat and a new country to build. Will we miss this chance? Will we wait for the wind to take us where our will should? What will this revolution mean if we forget we are the wind that needs to fill our sails? It’s up to us to demand it.
It feels like our Constitution has failed us, but it was us who failed it. We stopped looking at it as a living document and enshrined it for the future, placing it on a pedestal made of the honor of men. Men who more often than not are not honorable. We counted on the very thing men held high to keep them honorable. The design was not flawed. We were. We lost trust in our government for lack of its virtue as we lost our own.
Now we are by the dawn of a new age, fighting in a new revolution. For it to amount to something significant the result must be new as well. We must not be fighting to preserve our Constitution but to bring it back to life. The tyranny we oppose was engendered through the cracks in it as it withered on the flawed pedestal we placed it on. To ensure it does not surface again we need to renew it.
Long gone seem the days of Constitutional crisis now that we watch it collapsing. The speed of the ongoing collapse is what made tyranny the people’s main concern, instead of the border or the economy. The way our government works became clear as we watched it collapse and now everyone sees how the issues usually discussed around kitchen tables are all connected and dependent on the health of democracy.
Fighting for the soul of our nation has turned into a concrete reality and not just a verse from a poetic aspiration. It is now essential. And clear. I am yet to see the rising leaders of this revolution to proclaim this goal of renewal and Constitutional rebirth. It must come after what has turned into a battle we cannot afford to lose. Those words of reassurance are needed from them. Words of warning and alarm are now less needed than those pointing the way forward.
The millions gathered every day a Hands Off national event happens are thirsty for those words and already awake. We need to see the future through the eyes of our leaders and hear them talk about it in no uncertain terms. Like the original revolutionaries of 1776 we have a country to build after victory comes. And it will come. It’s time to start building its new foundations by planning ahead and stating our goals.
Whatever comes next must be new and progressive. These times are made for glory and vision. We must have that vision in our minds and hearts and demand it from our leaders. This is the opportunity of a lifetime, 250 years later. This is it. Whatever we do, we cannot be throwing away our shot.
Resist. Oppose. Rebuild.
