CA Tries to Help in the Time of Pandemic...

The governor of CA (unlike in my home state of TX) tried to help out those who would be, are, affected most by sheltering in place after closing places where infection spread is rampant... Where there are crowds of any sort. He did so with little, to no, support from the only source that can afford to assist: the US federal government.

Grover Norquist led the charge to shrink government, so that it might be, "drowned in a bathtub." The republican party (with too much assistance from, “neo-liberal,” democrats) delivered. So now there is little, to no, support structure from the only place that can afford it (seems repetitive, because it really needs repeating): the US federal government (see also: capital flight to safety   https://www.stlouisfed.org/publications/regional-economist/july-2010/flight-to-safety-and-us-treasury-securities).

Those who are most affected economically by shelter in place have no safety net (they need and deserve), because they are the backbone of our economy. The only other means for them to support themselves is to go back to work...

You've noticed how that's working out.

Register, vote and follow up with your elected officials. Vote for every office where there is an alternative (my perspective is to leave blank/don't vote) for any unopposed candidate.

Change at the federal government is a serious priority, but all elected officials deserve replacement if they don't deliver on the priorities you communicated (brief and courteously) to them.

We got where we are today because too many believed, “this couldn't happen here,” and did not vote/vote seriously.

Here we are!

Show up! Vote! Be the participating citizen that is absolutely essential to a democratic republic

Criminal Justice in the USA Requires Systemic Change

Register, vote and follow-up.

Let your elected representatives know that criminal justice, includes law enforcement/police, in America needs serious systemic change.

Circumstances have caused you to be late to the game...

Get started, yesterday, because failure, in a few years, will require someone else try to do this job; do it better!

The End of the Beginning...

Here, in these United States of America, we are at the end of the beginning...

If these things were easy slavery would have been renounced before it could start, the Civil War would not have been necessary and the 45 administration would never have happened.

Freedom was never free, and a Democratic Republic requires voters voting.

Register to vote, vote, then follow up with your elected representatives; let them know what you expect and that they can be replaced in the same way that they were elected.