Moving Forward, 60 Years On... Still So Much... Undone.

Certainly the gains won ought to be celebrated and remembered.

Just as certainly, the influence of today's MAGA GOP wing -- on national and local politics -- is a strikingly disturbing echo of the second rise of the Klan, in almost exactly the same role, from about 1905 to 1923.

In my life-time, this is the first time I've been genuinely concerned that equal, genderless rights under the law. . . might wink out of existence. From attempts to decrease female autonomy in certain states -- over their own bodies. . . to escalated violence against humans for no reason other than their skin color. . . to broad daylight, openly violent attacks on LBGTQ+ humans. . . and the renewed rise of "sundown" towns, again. . . this is indeed. . . a perilous time.

Locally, one party super-majorities (as we've mentioned, in Sumner County, Tennessee, for example). . . though claiming to be "Constitutional" Republicans -- they are actually... fascists, trying to stamp out any opposition, to their ultra-repressive, one "religion" only, pre-Magna-Carta form of fiefdom rule.

So it is that over 10,000 are expected on the Mall, Monday.

I may just hop a flight and join them.

Time to reignite -- and rise up. Rise up, to protect what so so many bled and died for.

Out.

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