Veterans (And Jon Stewart) Show How Moral Courage Is Done
"If this is 'America First,' then America is F***ED!!!" - Jon Stewart, after Republicans voted down supporting veterans' health Thursday.
Nobody is a hero here. It shouldn't take 20 freaking years to get legislation even this far. 20 freaking years.
This is not okay on any level. But the party-specific temper tantrum punishing veterans and first responders because Republicans are angry at Democrats adds spectacular insult to *years* of injury and illness.
👀 Watch this outrage all over since Thursday from veterans to see how moral outrage is done. 📋 It's worth taking some notes.
We need to take a lesson from this outrage… and do it for everything.
This stuff is primal.
We need to act like it. It's time.
Tim Ryan also did powerful moral outrage this past week about investing in American microchip technology.
We need more of all this.
We have to fight at a values level for a different future. It’s actually one of the 5 Things we’re pushing to help Shift the Country. Here’s more: https://www.shiftthecountry.com/champion_vision_values
We need to go all out.
This country cannot sustain the path we're on. It won't hold.
We have got to chart out a different path. And fast. Like with vision and values that will serve us better collectively than so much of what's being pushed now by loud groups of angry, intolerant, mean people who refuse to invest in Americans.
Shift the Country is putting together an aggressive series of online events starting August 15.
Events will be set up to help make as much shift happen as possible in the 12-week run-up to the election. We plan to leverage social networks online and in-real-life, media coverage, ruckus we create to get that coverage, and content we’re all going to create to do this shift.
August will be brainstorming and teamwork, so we can work together to figure out how to create fast-growing stuff that can scale fast in early- to mid-September… and then spread even wider through October. For example, we can figure out ways to pressure businesses big time who have supported insurrectionists. Or like the 41 Senators who blocked a bill this week to help veterans exposed to toxic burn pits. The lists go on.
This will be a crowd-sourcing and teamwork movement. We're going to get people together to figure out how to make this shift happen.
And then we're going to do it. Because we can.
Events will be announced here via Substack and on the website, at https://www.shiftthecountry.com/.
We’ll have specific volunteer stuff to sign up for, too. We've got to build the tech first, and then we'll announce events + volunteer sign-ups this next week.
Be safe. Share this with friends. Keep the faith - in humans, and in this democracy. And then let's go about keeping it.