How would you feel if you opened your heart and spilled your troubles to a person who could help and that person just turned around and walked out the door mumbling something about needing a break?  I suspect you might be feeling hurt, angry, humiliated, unvalued, and unfriended. Our democracy teeters on the brink, and Congress has repeatedly offered the above insult to the American people over and over.  There can be a whole population of TSA workers working without pay and Congress went home for a break, mumbling something about “sorry” , “what a shame”, and most pathetically, “its not our fault”. The same thing this weekend with the now illegal war.  “its not our fault, sorry but going home”.  I hate to say it, but yes, it is your fault.  You are Congress and if the Executive comes off the rails you are on point to correct that situation. 

An immodest Proposal for Good

To the minority party and the thinking center of both parties, freshman to most senior, you have a power tested by the ages.  You have a power that is nonviolent and impossible to ignore.  You have a power that would regain the respect of America and completely upend the balance of power.   That power is presence.  Don’t go home.  Go on a “Presence Strike” against your own leadership if necessary.  The salt strike orchestrated by Gandhi brought down an empire.  Gather a good sleeping bag, floor pads, and stay present in chambers over night, over the weekends and breaks when Americans are suffering and war is on or looming.  Above all don’t just turn your back and go home; not even to your Washington DC digs. No need at this point for a hunger strike.  Face it, there is nothing you can say to the public to restore your standing.  You are insulting us when you go home without effect and mumble sorry and not my fault.  While a Presence Strike might be outside the rules of Congress, it would be nonviolent and offer a drama of caring that would shock and change.  Don’t go home until an acceptable vote is offered.  You all just look too comfortable for what is going on.  These Posts for The Good Decision will reach just under 200 people a week.  Not much for a serious political effect there.  However if you repost this Post to your thoughtful, hurting friends and representatives,  and they to theirs, who knows what might result?  That just might be good, very good.

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