All That’s Left Is the Vote - our last chance to stem Trump's consolidation of power

As George Packer writes in the New Yorker this week:

The midterm elections are the last obstacle to Trump’s consolidation of power—and the greatest obstacle to voting is the feeling that it doesn’t matter.
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None of the other forces that might have checked the rise of a corrupt homegrown oligarchy can stop or even slow it. The institutional clout that ended the Presidency of Richard Nixon no longer exists.
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And, when the independent counsel finally releases his report, it will have only the potency that the guardians of the law and the Constitution give it.
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Democrats have a habit of forgetting to vote between Presidential elections. Republican turnout has exceeded or equalled Democratic turnout in every midterm since 1978, no matter which party held the Presidency, with an average margin of three per cent—more than enough to decide control of Congress in a closely divided election.
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This year, something seems to be changing. The new faces among Democratic candidates, the new energy behind them, suggest a party of members, not squatters. But, come November, they will have to vote. It’s the only thing left. ♦

 

Families Together on Fathers Day

Many American families are lucky to be able to spend Fathers Day together.

But the Trump administration has adopted a policy to tear families apart; the policy in some detention camps is not to pick up a toddler crying because they are without their Mother!

As Zephyr Teachout (candidate for NY Attorney General) says: 

The moral fury of our country, grounded in humanity, can not let these outrageous family separations continue. We must overcome their politics of fear and scarcity and calculation with a politics of love and righteous anger and justice.

But that means we must make our voices heard on this issue. If we are silent on this issue, we are complicit.

I've not heard my Congressmember, Brian Fitzpatrick, a Republican in a swing district, publicly condemned the President for his policy. He needs to hear from us now. Will you join me in calling him and other Republicans in Congress to demand they clearly condemn Trump for his policy of family separation? Republicans breaking with the President mean a lot right now.