tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29235839.post7504258462521441735..comments2024-02-05T05:15:04.759-08:00Comments on Wandering Scientist: Facing TomorrowCloudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09317847285050447789noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29235839.post-61447437306070179732017-01-20T08:04:38.193-08:002017-01-20T08:04:38.193-08:00Haha, math. My 4th march...Haha, math. My 4th march...Alexicographernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29235839.post-14160851381800293772017-01-20T07:43:12.564-08:002017-01-20T07:43:12.564-08:00This post is beautiful, and I think it's exact...This post is beautiful, and I think it's exactly right. Though truthfully, I (personally) don't feel that tied to this country. Like your DH, my mother is from elsewhere, and at present my first cousins + sibling are scattered across 5 nations (including the US), 4 as permanent residents/property owners (and mostly, though not entirely, citizens) where they live and just one of the families because it's where military service has landed them. So truth be told, I would/will leave, but I don't want to need to, and I certainly object strongly to what's afoot and have been fighting it and will continue (that's true even if I leave, for that matter). Also, many of the nations my extended family lives in are facing similar challenges/problems within their political systems. It's not like the US is alone in this.<br /><br />A few years back, someone in the family ran across a letter written by my (late) grandmother who was living in London not long before the start of the Blitz. At a time when many still believed in appeasement, she was (per her description) frantically running around the city trying to get the permissions (visas and such) to move herself and her children out of Great Britain (She succeeded. Make no mistake, that reflects class privilege, just as my own relative non-anxiety about Trump does. Not that I'm not anxious. But I don't kid myself that my anxiety is the same as many others', because it's not.). Although it's obviously not directly analogous to the contemporary situation in the US, for some reason -- perhaps my own anxieties -- what she wrote in that letter keeps popping into my head.<br /><br />I'm marching in my state capital, with my mom, two friends, and one of said friend's kids, and have many other friends who are going. This will, I guess, be my 3rd march -- 2 pro-choice marches in DC when in college, and one anti-war march in the second Bush administration in NYC. I don't feel more anxious about this one than I did about those (and I didn't feel anxious about those, though the anti-war one, to which I went solo, was a bit tense in moments), though I think I would for the DC march.Alexicographernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29235839.post-55487189661363044642017-01-20T06:04:53.074-08:002017-01-20T06:04:53.074-08:00What keeps me going is the knowledge that we ebb a...What keeps me going is the knowledge that we ebb and flow our way through progress, but over time we do more flowing than ebbing. The tide will turn. That's what it does. In the meantime, we look for what we can do, and we do it.Tragic Sandwichhttp://www.tragicsandwich.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29235839.post-32908375461310369652017-01-20T05:58:00.323-08:002017-01-20T05:58:00.323-08:00think you really hit in what has been the most dev... think you really hit in what has been the most devastating result of this election: as awful Trumo is, he's not the worst thing to come from this. It's the sickening realization that so many people in America share his views. Keep fighting! Your version of the USA should be reality!<br /><br />There is a march in my smaller Canadian city to stand in solidarity with the march on Saturday. I haven't decided if I'll go or not, but just know there are millions of people all over the world who believe America is the one you imagine too. Alyssahttp://mrscomethunter.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29235839.post-46811938529466372542017-01-19T21:26:38.012-08:002017-01-19T21:26:38.012-08:00I'm going to the march for similar reasons, an...I'm going to the march for similar reasons, and a few others. I'm nervous, but not nearly as nervous (terrified/horrified/petrified, pick your word) of what's to come if those of us in a place of privilege don't start showing up to do the work. Gingerhttp://rambleramble.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29235839.post-68226137014450856312017-01-19T19:55:59.912-08:002017-01-19T19:55:59.912-08:00I have actual diagnosed ochlophobia and it never o...I have actual diagnosed ochlophobia and it never occurred to me not to go to the march, which for me will be a 2 hour drive very early on Saturday. I'm taking DH and the kids too. My sister will be coming the night before.<br /><br />I find with crowds outside it is best for me to be on the edges so I can take a break if I start panicking. There are also often gaps I can find that give me space. Outside is easier than inside. <br /><br />Yes, it is definitely our responsibility as privileged white upper middle class citizens to fight. We have this privilege so we can give back and fight so that everybody has the same advantages.<br /><br />Great post, thank you.Nicoleandmaggiehttp://nicoleandmaggie.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com