If you feel sad today, rather than joyous, that’s understandable. The slow erosion and degredations of our freedoms, the utter spinelessness of a full half of the legislature, the complicity of the Supreme Court who plainly prefers to wrangle one party and set loose another, rather than push for responsible judiciary review, and an Executive Branch that has consolidated power and corruption to a degree never before witnessed in our 249 year history are enough to make even the most patriotic of us a little grumpy.

Here’s the thing: tyrants get deposed. New nations are born. People march and demonstrate. Today is as good a day as any to remember that. Or as good a day as any to rest up for the next moment of dissent.

Recharge. Refocus. Renew the fight. For all its flaws, the idea of America —liberty and justice for all —is still a good one, even if it takes some folks longer to recall what it stands for. These ideas are worth fighting for.

Refocusing

When Alt National Park Service quotes Hamilton: “Tomorrow there’ll be more of us”, what they mean is… generally, you can only pull the wool over the eyes of Americans for so long before they catch on. Each step closer to the edge of authoritarianism, closer to the not-so-distant past of the nationalistic policies of Nazi Germany, each freedom trodden on and each word censured, more folks find reasons to find their voice and fight (or at the VERY LEAST, to turn away from these dollar store demogauges and their nonsense).

Tomorrow is a new day. And tomorrow there’ll be more of us. Keep speaking up – it matters.