My theme for this year’s A to Z Challenge is the A to Z of Democracy. This is your trigger warning. If you are going to be bothered by my descriptions of what I believe America should look and feel like, please stop reading and come back next year when my topic may go back to music or scrapbooking or interesting tidbits. Please respect my space and DO NOT leave disinformation or inflammatory statements in the comments. It’s my blog and I will delete them. Thanks for your cooperation. 

I have heard people talk about how frustrating and frightening it is to live in our world right now. “What can we do about it? We have no power to make changes.” That is not true. We do have power. We may not have the majority in the congress but we already have the laws on the books (Constitution and the Bill of Rights). All we need to do is use them! And when we do get back in power we need to strengthen them so that this debacle never happens again!

Freedom of speech! As evidenced by the most recent Jimmy Kimmel incident when he said in his monologue that Melania looked like an expectant widow and the charges against James Comey for writing 8647 in the sand, the administration wants to restrict what we can say while using the most vile and hateful rhetoric ever. They want Kimmel fired and Comey in jail. Well, the last time they wanted to restrict Jimmy Kimmel we got together and cancelled subscriptions to Disney + (the parent company) and within a week he was back on the air. That’s power in my opinion. We made our voices heard in a way that they listen to, their pocketbook!

I don’t know if any of you have participated in the protests that have happened around the country. I have been to three, two holding signs on a freeway overpass and one as part of a human banner on the beach in San Francisco. I get so emotional when I see the numbers of people joining me. It really brings it out that we are not alone in how we feel and that we just need to keep showing up. They are getting weaker and weaker and they are afraid.

As always, credit goes to Speaker Hakeem Jeffries who gave an impassioned speech on the floor of the House of Representatives at the beginning of the 218th congress.