It is intestinal fortitude, and a whole lot more in terms of personal discipline, because it’s not just the next Presidential election. It’s local and state elections, and many elections AFTER the next election. As the media have shown us, our collective attention span is about a millisecond. So how to convert the necessity into action is a very long term project.
The currents and countercurrents are strong and progressive causes always swim against them. We are still fighting Roe v. Wade, violently, 42 years later. We are still fighting for racial equality, violently, 60 years after MLK and 150 years since the Civil War.
These things that we need to fix are obvious to you and me, but so non-obvious to the rest of the country. We have to take a patient, firm, and very long range perspective on them or they will drive us insane, and insanity will cause inaction and resignation.
