Certainly the gains won ought to be celebrated and remembered.

Just as certainly, the influence of today’s MAGA GOP wing — on national and local politics — is a strikingly disturbing echo of the second rise of the Klan, in almost exactly the same role, from about 1905 to 1923.

In my life-time, this is the first time I’ve been genuinely concerned that equal, genderless rights under the law… might wink out of existence. From attempts to decrease female autonomy in certain states — over their own bodies… to escalated violence against humans for no reason other than their skin color… to broad daylight, openly violent attacks on LBGTQ+ humans… and the renewed rise of “sundown” towns, again… this is indeed… a perilous time.

Locally, one party super-majorities (as we’ve mentioned, in Sumner County, Tennessee, for example)… though claiming to be “Constitutional” Republicans — they are actually… fascists, trying to stamp out any opposition, to their ultra-repressive, one “religion” only, pre-Magna-Carta form of fiefdom rule.

So it is that over 10,000 are expected on the Mall, Monday.

I may just hop a flight and join them.

Time to reignite — and rise up. Rise up, to protect what so so many bled and died for.

Out.

नमस्ते