thank you for reading this, and for these comments. they're great. art is more important than ever. helps me make sense of the world in a way that the news can't. it's the long view. infinity on trial. sagrada familia survived the spanish civil war (though apparently anarchists tried to blow it up!), fascism, global recessions, depressions, pandemics... just getting my head around that and thinking about what we're all part of... our country as a cathedral, the blueprints drawn up by those who preceded us, different hands from different generations putting the stones in place, this crazy massive beautiful cathedral that we'll leave to our kids who will continue the work long after we're gone. Are we going to let Musk's anarchists blow it up? are we going to let the fascists destroy it?
You’re a good man, Beto, that I’ve never had any doubt about— sorry to learn of your sister’s passing away a few years ago, and your mother, don’t let those evil people in charge of your state win the war.
Your “thank you for reading this” perhaps ought to be included in your piece. It is a great summary bringing those observations into the present circumstances. The original piece is expansive and encompassing, wrenching and inspiring,. Then your comment very focused and encouraging. I enjoyed both, thank you!
Thank you, Beto, for sharing your experience and especially for acknowledging where we are in these difficult moments.
I’d like to think that enough of us will come together and fight for better, that we’ll push back against the fascist oligarchy we now find ourselves in. I’m clinging to hope and using my rage and love as fuel to keep going.
Your essay reminded me of the reconstruction of Notre Dame. Rebuilt and reimagined for the future by sheer mastery of traditional craftsmanship, feats of engineering and breathtaking vision.
Beto, I cannot tell you how happy I was to see your writing. I’m familiar somewhat with the sagrada Familia through a friend who has gone and seen it himself. I never equated it with comparisons to what’s happening in America right now, but it seems to fit the way that you have drawn the picture. There is so much confusion and fear, and as you say, despair, depression, In all of our hearts right now. I know there is a period of enlightenment coming for the human race but it’s a very, very slow progression to reach that enlightenment. Slow meaning hundreds of year to reach that glorious age. In the meantime, we need people like you to please continue to speak up, show yourself, fight for us with us. We need all the help we can get from every corner of the Republican and Democratic side. Again, thank you very much for coming back into the frame, we need you desperately.
Thank you, Beto. Your comments and photos are much appreciated. As always, your lessons in history are interesting and informative. But, I am especially drawn to your analogy, comparing the Sagrada Familia to our “cathedral”—our country. Both are works in progress! Let’s make sure we leave ours in good enough shape for our kids to continue the work.
First, you embody the qualities of leadership and democracy we all seek. We stand by those in Congress, and your role with the Power of the People offers hope. Your visionary role in our country is evident, and I know how hard you will work to steer us back toward the US Constitution. We need your leadership and character Beto:)
Also, I had a gallery for 30 years, so thank you for this artistic journey with your family! Diane Christin Zenchenko-Esser / Who's Who in America Climate Literacy - Documentary: The Green Connection Making a Change for Climate Change.
I’ve been wondering where you are? This is your time. We need you to lead the resistance right now! Democrats will not save us. 2028 may never come. America will be ravaged if we wait that long. Everyone is looking for someone else to do something. If you take the lead millions of patriots will follow.
No, but a lot of needless suffering and "pain" just a little "pain" will have to be gone through that certainly wasn't mentioned as a campaign promise. Thanks for your inspirational comparison of Goya & Gaudi. I saw a great curated show of Goya's prints, his political satire cartoons, that reeled with the human condition years ago at Boston mfa. His ability to convey the deviousness of character, the deceit of conceit, his use of chiaroscuro with an emphasis on the shadow, his squirrely line ---all really get you to shine a light on your own cover--and using, like Dante descending into Hell, faces of the celebrated characters of his era....thanks for the memories and encouragement we will lift out of this sinking ship together
It is true that in some ways, Goya stripped the world bare, peeled back the skin of civility to expose the raw, flinching muscle of despair, his blacks and browns swallowing light, his figures trapped in the final moments before obliteration. Gaudí, by contrast, lifted the human spirit skyward, his mosaics refracting hope like stained glass catching morning sun. But what do we do when the world swings back toward Goya’s palette? When we wake to headlines that make our stomachs sink, when democracy itself seems to teeter on the edge of a dark canvas? We take Gaudí’s impulse to build…to imagine, to insist on beauty, and wield it as rebellion. We speak, we create, we refuse to let the weight of the present crush the possibility of the future. Thank you for being here. You are a voice, a clear voice of sanity, in an upside down world right now. You’re deeply appreciated.
I am speechless at this beautiful response. I am tucking that phrase, “to insist on beauty and wield it as rebellion “ deep into my bones. This, that was floating around in me already, coalescing in your response. Thank you. To insist on beauty is my mantra. I will not, cannot, relinquish it to anything.
Annie, I am deeply flattered by your beautiful response. Thank you so much. Beauty is a fabulous mantra. Hold it close to your heart and never let it go. 🩷
Thanks for the inspiration to look beyond the horrors in room 67. Though we can’t help but see that, we don’t have to linger there in that dark place. Let’s look to the greens and blues, to hope.
Stacy, beautifully written, both your piece and Beto’s. It is so easy to start feeling there is no hope, no way out. But then I see all these amazing, talented, loving people who hold the same values as I do, and I’m filled with hope that perhaps, with the strength of these beautiful people, we I dig our way out of the darkness.
Beto, I needed this today. In fact I’m in tears writing this comment. I just hung up with my adult daughter, a school board trustee who fights every day to protect the public school students she serves. I always tell her to keep up the fight but that today I couldn’t tell her that because I didn’t know if it would matter. It does matter and she will continue to fight and so will I. I know you will too. Thank you for all you do.
“What Gaudí seems to be telling us is that, despite the brutality and cruelty of which we are so capable, we are defined ultimately by our ability to overcome those traits and to find something bigger than our pain, our desire and our cruelty, bigger even than the beauty and power and wealth that any one of us might hold.
He looked at humanity and found hope, redemption and even salvation.”
Ever the optimist, O’Rourke, aren’t you— Beto, please put those words into action as you’ve said many times before and run again— Former Congressman, your state is currently run by a madman lunatic out of a sociopathic asylum who has all of Trump’s hatred but unlike him, coupled with restraint in proper decorum to lure in foolish women to their deaths, a high level of intelligence (unlike Trump, he is clearly far more astute and ten times more clever- never lets up his guard for a second, very cautious evil is often the most formidable evil of them all with pre-planned malice that is ascribed to stupidity by those too dumb to realize it).
Unless you stop that man at your own hands, he has every intention of running for President in the future- and seeing firsthand what Abbott is capable of, he puts all the others on the entire GOP to shame.
Not even DeSantis, nor even Trump, can compete with the sheer level of evil that is off the Richter scale with Abbott:
Texas is too small for Beto. We need him to be our next president. Of all the people in the world who would be better than Beto to bring the diverse democracy coalition together? You can’t name anyone. But we need him to lead the resistance today. There’s no time to waste. Democrats will not save us. We’re going to have to do this ourselves. We need 10 million patriots without guns or knives to go to Washington and shut this carnival of corruption down right now.
Let us not forget that each of us is divinely endowed with the ability to conciously choose how we respond to our impressions and experiences in the moment. We each have the opportunity to transform the low vibrational ephemera that surrounds us and transform it into the highest possible good.
Do not let the psychological warfare being perpetuated on the American people take root in our conciousness. We must not react to, but rather rise above.
I love, love, love this!! Thank you so much, Beto. I’m a federal employee. I love my work; I love my colleagues and my country. These past weeks have been hard, bleak, Goya-esque. But then I saw a post by the National Gallery of Art about Degas’ dancers, and I read the captions and knew my fellow feds are still working, still standing up. I write my newsletter every week to remind people that 2,000 years ago people had the same problems we have now: tyrants, cowards, crackpots, and sadists. Dignity and hope must hold out. That’s the best in us.
Trump did NOT win in a landslide and Musk's antics are not landing favorably, I feel, with Americans. Our justice system at this point needs to show us that the United States Constitution will be upheld. Long story short looking at the world's history. We know the fate of Kings and Emperors.
I too just got from a first visit to Barcelona, visiting family. I saw the Sagrada Família and toured that profound work. I read after, Peter Gabriel was inspired early on by the Sagrada Família when he first wrote Your Eyes. That song to me was the anthem and battle cry against South African apartheid in the mid 80s. I listened to the African beat and feel again, the hope in these disparaging times.
Beautiful reflection, Beto. My husband and I felt the same way about Sagrada when we visited in 2019. Faith in what’s to come, even when the only proof is what we create to carry hope’s torch.
Beto, thank you for your beautifully composed essay on darkness and light. Life is chiaro/scuro. Or in your essay, scuro/chiaro! Your illustrations were brilliant in describing what happens to us in life. Sometimes, life seems dark, but humanity seems to find a way to Hope and to act. There is a spark of light in all of us. We just have to recognize it and help it to grow.
This is the second time I have lived in Texas. 21 years of my life. I have never voted for a conservative, even though every district I have ever lived in, and every congressional district, has had some kind of conservative at the head.
Come to Huntsville, Texas, Beto. Walker County needs your assistance. We have a nice Democratic Party here, but we are grossly outnumbered. Help bring us some light.
Many, many thanks for your intelligent and brilliant essay. I remember teaching a bit of Goya in my humanities classes. We also learned about the cathedrals in Europe and all the light and upliftment to the souls that they bring.
He is a truly good person who is not in it for himself, what a rare thing that is— what an incredibly bad misread and bad faith attack was launched on him prior, I suspected the MSM was selling me garbage on Beto in 2019 all along (after all, they had been fawning endlessly over him 24/7 in 2018 and I thought, what’s the matter, they have told me the same person I saw before is all of a sudden some evil privileged monster because they told me he was?).
Not everyday you see a rich white man in Texas sticking up for Black men and women in a race where that could politically hurt him in a Republican state- was truly brave, O’Rourke has since shown he has a solid moral compass that guides his actions even in his recent failed bids (2/3 are pretty understandable when you consider no Democrat has achieved victory in the state in three decades now statewide or for POTUS even longer, his 2018 bid was the high water mark for any Dem in 30+ years to date) which is rare- his strength is genuine empathy, something most lack.
I think Texans need that, badly, right now— you’ve been through indescribable hell imo seeing those 5 leaders in power right now, even relative to the other monsters in the other 20+ GOP states including Reeves in Mississippi, DeSantis in Florida, I cannot think of a more cruel, evil, delighting in misery and suffering person in all the US than Abbott of your state. Question is, will it manage to break through its 30+ year long Red, Red, vote for the R, Red, all DEMORATS are evil satantic pedos who kill babies mantra in the state.
Beto O’Rourke is the REAL deal. When I volunteered for him in 2018, I got to hear the stories from his supporters and understand how passionate and “For The People” they really are. Beto has also shown compassion, relentlessness, empathy and Decorum. He’s a Rare breed politician in the modern era. He’s like a layered Sub Sandwich crossed with the meat of Theodore Roosevelt,Barack Obama,George McGovern and just a little spice of Ronald Reagan(Gun Reform wise)and William Jefferson Blythe. In my eyes, he would make a Really Good President.
I am a Howard Dean old fashioned Blue Dog. They’re the wing of the Democrats that can and WANT to help people.
As for Texans, we have been never able to recover from losing Ann Richards. After she was defeated by Dubya, Cronyism completely devoured our State. Beto is the only one here who through the help of the DNC and DCCC can get to the Governor seat. They just haven’t paid any attention to him. Regarding the MSM, I quit taking them seriously 10 years ago when they started propping up Trump and Bernie. MSNBC seems to be the only one that has some credibility and dignity left.
Thank you. I live in Texas. Soon We will remember these days as the last of our golden time in a space of peace. Boomers will be ending as a tribe. Reminded a young activist that a peaceful protest won't always end that way. Remember Kent State? She didn't. Your words mean hope for us. Dear God, I hope so.
Your piece made me think that the US and the world is under going a major change spiritually, at a cellular level with our health, a personal level, why am I here, what is my purpose, what does it mean to be a human being. Also at an interpersonal level between us and others and the value of others. Also at many political levels. This coming change for all of us will be scary, one we need to fight for...but I think in the end, we will make it through. I have to believe our country will be better in the end because we fought for our rights, our neighbors, our families. Clearly, we've just begun to see the storm and the darkness, but I believe the truth will light our way no matter how dark it gets. We are all in this together. Keep your light burning 🕯 🔥!!
thank you for reading this, and for these comments. they're great. art is more important than ever. helps me make sense of the world in a way that the news can't. it's the long view. infinity on trial. sagrada familia survived the spanish civil war (though apparently anarchists tried to blow it up!), fascism, global recessions, depressions, pandemics... just getting my head around that and thinking about what we're all part of... our country as a cathedral, the blueprints drawn up by those who preceded us, different hands from different generations putting the stones in place, this crazy massive beautiful cathedral that we'll leave to our kids who will continue the work long after we're gone. Are we going to let Musk's anarchists blow it up? are we going to let the fascists destroy it?
You’re a good man, Beto, that I’ve never had any doubt about— sorry to learn of your sister’s passing away a few years ago, and your mother, don’t let those evil people in charge of your state win the war.
Thank you for the beautiful pictures and reflections on the importance of art, it was lovely
Your “thank you for reading this” perhaps ought to be included in your piece. It is a great summary bringing those observations into the present circumstances. The original piece is expansive and encompassing, wrenching and inspiring,. Then your comment very focused and encouraging. I enjoyed both, thank you!
Thank you, Beto, for sharing your experience and especially for acknowledging where we are in these difficult moments.
I’d like to think that enough of us will come together and fight for better, that we’ll push back against the fascist oligarchy we now find ourselves in. I’m clinging to hope and using my rage and love as fuel to keep going.
Your essay reminded me of the reconstruction of Notre Dame. Rebuilt and reimagined for the future by sheer mastery of traditional craftsmanship, feats of engineering and breathtaking vision.
Beto, I cannot tell you how happy I was to see your writing. I’m familiar somewhat with the sagrada Familia through a friend who has gone and seen it himself. I never equated it with comparisons to what’s happening in America right now, but it seems to fit the way that you have drawn the picture. There is so much confusion and fear, and as you say, despair, depression, In all of our hearts right now. I know there is a period of enlightenment coming for the human race but it’s a very, very slow progression to reach that enlightenment. Slow meaning hundreds of year to reach that glorious age. In the meantime, we need people like you to please continue to speak up, show yourself, fight for us with us. We need all the help we can get from every corner of the Republican and Democratic side. Again, thank you very much for coming back into the frame, we need you desperately.
I will echo "desperately"!
Thank you, Beto. Your comments and photos are much appreciated. As always, your lessons in history are interesting and informative. But, I am especially drawn to your analogy, comparing the Sagrada Familia to our “cathedral”—our country. Both are works in progress! Let’s make sure we leave ours in good enough shape for our kids to continue the work.
First, you embody the qualities of leadership and democracy we all seek. We stand by those in Congress, and your role with the Power of the People offers hope. Your visionary role in our country is evident, and I know how hard you will work to steer us back toward the US Constitution. We need your leadership and character Beto:)
Also, I had a gallery for 30 years, so thank you for this artistic journey with your family! Diane Christin Zenchenko-Esser / Who's Who in America Climate Literacy - Documentary: The Green Connection Making a Change for Climate Change.
Ooh... Cathedrals are what political influencer Curtis Yarvin uses to describe the Brotechnocracy he endorses. But good to reclaim it.
I’ve been wondering where you are? This is your time. We need you to lead the resistance right now! Democrats will not save us. 2028 may never come. America will be ravaged if we wait that long. Everyone is looking for someone else to do something. If you take the lead millions of patriots will follow.
No, but a lot of needless suffering and "pain" just a little "pain" will have to be gone through that certainly wasn't mentioned as a campaign promise. Thanks for your inspirational comparison of Goya & Gaudi. I saw a great curated show of Goya's prints, his political satire cartoons, that reeled with the human condition years ago at Boston mfa. His ability to convey the deviousness of character, the deceit of conceit, his use of chiaroscuro with an emphasis on the shadow, his squirrely line ---all really get you to shine a light on your own cover--and using, like Dante descending into Hell, faces of the celebrated characters of his era....thanks for the memories and encouragement we will lift out of this sinking ship together
Nope
We will not.
It is true that in some ways, Goya stripped the world bare, peeled back the skin of civility to expose the raw, flinching muscle of despair, his blacks and browns swallowing light, his figures trapped in the final moments before obliteration. Gaudí, by contrast, lifted the human spirit skyward, his mosaics refracting hope like stained glass catching morning sun. But what do we do when the world swings back toward Goya’s palette? When we wake to headlines that make our stomachs sink, when democracy itself seems to teeter on the edge of a dark canvas? We take Gaudí’s impulse to build…to imagine, to insist on beauty, and wield it as rebellion. We speak, we create, we refuse to let the weight of the present crush the possibility of the future. Thank you for being here. You are a voice, a clear voice of sanity, in an upside down world right now. You’re deeply appreciated.
I am speechless at this beautiful response. I am tucking that phrase, “to insist on beauty and wield it as rebellion “ deep into my bones. This, that was floating around in me already, coalescing in your response. Thank you. To insist on beauty is my mantra. I will not, cannot, relinquish it to anything.
Annie, I am deeply flattered by your beautiful response. Thank you so much. Beauty is a fabulous mantra. Hold it close to your heart and never let it go. 🩷
Thanks for the inspiration to look beyond the horrors in room 67. Though we can’t help but see that, we don’t have to linger there in that dark place. Let’s look to the greens and blues, to hope.
Room 67 invite only. We don’t do stop ins or solicitors. Private. Property. 💥
Stacy, beautifully written, both your piece and Beto’s. It is so easy to start feeling there is no hope, no way out. But then I see all these amazing, talented, loving people who hold the same values as I do, and I’m filled with hope that perhaps, with the strength of these beautiful people, we I dig our way out of the darkness.
Thank you very much, Terry. You have just succinctly stated why we of like minds must stick together 🩷
Wow, just wow! ❤️
Saturn doesn’t eat his own children. He eats ours. It’s how he funds his lifestyle and outsources the skulls for his ossuary.
Beautiful commentary, Stacy!
That’s very kind of you, Kristin. Thank you! 🩷
Beto, I needed this today. In fact I’m in tears writing this comment. I just hung up with my adult daughter, a school board trustee who fights every day to protect the public school students she serves. I always tell her to keep up the fight but that today I couldn’t tell her that because I didn’t know if it would matter. It does matter and she will continue to fight and so will I. I know you will too. Thank you for all you do.
Well said Pam. I'm going to go text my friend just elected to our school board and encourage her and admire her willingness to fight for our children.
You are such a brave defender of democracy, Beto! Texas needs you to run again. Public servants are under siege everywhere.
“What Gaudí seems to be telling us is that, despite the brutality and cruelty of which we are so capable, we are defined ultimately by our ability to overcome those traits and to find something bigger than our pain, our desire and our cruelty, bigger even than the beauty and power and wealth that any one of us might hold.
He looked at humanity and found hope, redemption and even salvation.”
Ever the optimist, O’Rourke, aren’t you— Beto, please put those words into action as you’ve said many times before and run again— Former Congressman, your state is currently run by a madman lunatic out of a sociopathic asylum who has all of Trump’s hatred but unlike him, coupled with restraint in proper decorum to lure in foolish women to their deaths, a high level of intelligence (unlike Trump, he is clearly far more astute and ten times more clever- never lets up his guard for a second, very cautious evil is often the most formidable evil of them all with pre-planned malice that is ascribed to stupidity by those too dumb to realize it).
Unless you stop that man at your own hands, he has every intention of running for President in the future- and seeing firsthand what Abbott is capable of, he puts all the others on the entire GOP to shame.
Not even DeSantis, nor even Trump, can compete with the sheer level of evil that is off the Richter scale with Abbott:
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/migrant-child-dies-chicago-texas-b2392053.html
He kills little girls for fun, that’s this monster.
That article was gut-wrenching. Abbott is seriously a supervillian. Just the worst.
Wow.
Texas is too small for Beto. We need him to be our next president. Of all the people in the world who would be better than Beto to bring the diverse democracy coalition together? You can’t name anyone. But we need him to lead the resistance today. There’s no time to waste. Democrats will not save us. We’re going to have to do this ourselves. We need 10 million patriots without guns or knives to go to Washington and shut this carnival of corruption down right now.
Here! Here!
Let us not forget that each of us is divinely endowed with the ability to conciously choose how we respond to our impressions and experiences in the moment. We each have the opportunity to transform the low vibrational ephemera that surrounds us and transform it into the highest possible good.
Do not let the psychological warfare being perpetuated on the American people take root in our conciousness. We must not react to, but rather rise above.
That’s right.
Can't tell you how much I've missed you!
I love, love, love this!! Thank you so much, Beto. I’m a federal employee. I love my work; I love my colleagues and my country. These past weeks have been hard, bleak, Goya-esque. But then I saw a post by the National Gallery of Art about Degas’ dancers, and I read the captions and knew my fellow feds are still working, still standing up. I write my newsletter every week to remind people that 2,000 years ago people had the same problems we have now: tyrants, cowards, crackpots, and sadists. Dignity and hope must hold out. That’s the best in us.
Trump did NOT win in a landslide and Musk's antics are not landing favorably, I feel, with Americans. Our justice system at this point needs to show us that the United States Constitution will be upheld. Long story short looking at the world's history. We know the fate of Kings and Emperors.
My father passed yesterday. I had dedicated my last couple years to going to see him as much as I could through 2 back surgeries.
Art was a huge part of his life as his second wife was an artist and he dedicated the latter part of his life to her until she passed in2017.
They walked across Spain 🇪🇸 several times the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela . Though they weren’t religious many people take this journey.
One of my regrets is I was never healthy enough to have this experience.
I'm sorry for your loss Mary. I hope the good memories you have of him outweigh any regrets.
I too just got from a first visit to Barcelona, visiting family. I saw the Sagrada Família and toured that profound work. I read after, Peter Gabriel was inspired early on by the Sagrada Família when he first wrote Your Eyes. That song to me was the anthem and battle cry against South African apartheid in the mid 80s. I listened to the African beat and feel again, the hope in these disparaging times.
Beautiful reflection, Beto. My husband and I felt the same way about Sagrada when we visited in 2019. Faith in what’s to come, even when the only proof is what we create to carry hope’s torch.
Beto, thank you for your beautifully composed essay on darkness and light. Life is chiaro/scuro. Or in your essay, scuro/chiaro! Your illustrations were brilliant in describing what happens to us in life. Sometimes, life seems dark, but humanity seems to find a way to Hope and to act. There is a spark of light in all of us. We just have to recognize it and help it to grow.
This is the second time I have lived in Texas. 21 years of my life. I have never voted for a conservative, even though every district I have ever lived in, and every congressional district, has had some kind of conservative at the head.
Come to Huntsville, Texas, Beto. Walker County needs your assistance. We have a nice Democratic Party here, but we are grossly outnumbered. Help bring us some light.
Many, many thanks for your intelligent and brilliant essay. I remember teaching a bit of Goya in my humanities classes. We also learned about the cathedrals in Europe and all the light and upliftment to the souls that they bring.
Thank you so much for your post, Beto. You always give encouragement and hope to people. We are ALL fighting to have Democracy restored,
He is a truly good person who is not in it for himself, what a rare thing that is— what an incredibly bad misread and bad faith attack was launched on him prior, I suspected the MSM was selling me garbage on Beto in 2019 all along (after all, they had been fawning endlessly over him 24/7 in 2018 and I thought, what’s the matter, they have told me the same person I saw before is all of a sudden some evil privileged monster because they told me he was?).
Not everyday you see a rich white man in Texas sticking up for Black men and women in a race where that could politically hurt him in a Republican state- was truly brave, O’Rourke has since shown he has a solid moral compass that guides his actions even in his recent failed bids (2/3 are pretty understandable when you consider no Democrat has achieved victory in the state in three decades now statewide or for POTUS even longer, his 2018 bid was the high water mark for any Dem in 30+ years to date) which is rare- his strength is genuine empathy, something most lack.
I think Texans need that, badly, right now— you’ve been through indescribable hell imo seeing those 5 leaders in power right now, even relative to the other monsters in the other 20+ GOP states including Reeves in Mississippi, DeSantis in Florida, I cannot think of a more cruel, evil, delighting in misery and suffering person in all the US than Abbott of your state. Question is, will it manage to break through its 30+ year long Red, Red, vote for the R, Red, all DEMORATS are evil satantic pedos who kill babies mantra in the state.
Beto O’Rourke is the REAL deal. When I volunteered for him in 2018, I got to hear the stories from his supporters and understand how passionate and “For The People” they really are. Beto has also shown compassion, relentlessness, empathy and Decorum. He’s a Rare breed politician in the modern era. He’s like a layered Sub Sandwich crossed with the meat of Theodore Roosevelt,Barack Obama,George McGovern and just a little spice of Ronald Reagan(Gun Reform wise)and William Jefferson Blythe. In my eyes, he would make a Really Good President.
I am a Howard Dean old fashioned Blue Dog. They’re the wing of the Democrats that can and WANT to help people.
As for Texans, we have been never able to recover from losing Ann Richards. After she was defeated by Dubya, Cronyism completely devoured our State. Beto is the only one here who through the help of the DNC and DCCC can get to the Governor seat. They just haven’t paid any attention to him. Regarding the MSM, I quit taking them seriously 10 years ago when they started propping up Trump and Bernie. MSNBC seems to be the only one that has some credibility and dignity left.
Hey man… you are sorely needed here. Welcome! (I’m a fellow Texan that voted for you a few years back)
Beautiful piece! We are so lucky to have your voice at this perilous moment in our history.
Thank you. I live in Texas. Soon We will remember these days as the last of our golden time in a space of peace. Boomers will be ending as a tribe. Reminded a young activist that a peaceful protest won't always end that way. Remember Kent State? She didn't. Your words mean hope for us. Dear God, I hope so.
Your piece made me think that the US and the world is under going a major change spiritually, at a cellular level with our health, a personal level, why am I here, what is my purpose, what does it mean to be a human being. Also at an interpersonal level between us and others and the value of others. Also at many political levels. This coming change for all of us will be scary, one we need to fight for...but I think in the end, we will make it through. I have to believe our country will be better in the end because we fought for our rights, our neighbors, our families. Clearly, we've just begun to see the storm and the darkness, but I believe the truth will light our way no matter how dark it gets. We are all in this together. Keep your light burning 🕯 🔥!!