The American Jobs Plan. Lengthy read, but some amazing stuff. Biden is listening and trying. Bless him.
The American Jobs Plan. Lengthy read, but some amazing stuff. Biden is listening and trying. Bless him.
Someone here said a while back they hoped Biden would "FDR the sh*t out of things", (or something to that effect). I wish him ALL SUCCESS in the endeavor.
@ana LOL. I like this phrase. Read today that FDR had his share of trouble getting things passed, but may the road be clear for Biden.
My husband and I were watching the news last night and President Biden was introducing his infrastructure plan. I told my husband, “There’s no stopping this now.” He asked what I meant.
At that moment, I had the strongest feeling that we are well and truly on the road to more and more progress. Gains, forward movement. Things a lot of you have predicted, but I really internalized it last night. Ironic that the feelings of forward movement were related to roads and bridges and internet communication. ?
It will come. It will come. It will come.
A tsunami wave train approaches. A tsunami that doesn't simply break in one tall crashing wave, but with multiple ones, layered upon each other, pushing inland with power. Unrelenting forces of nature uprooting everything in their path. An inundation which envelops, consuming the landscape, wave upon wave.
A tsunami battalion is gathering on the horizon, building unseen in the distance, while the target is captivated and drawn in by the shinny shells and glittering rocks along the deeply receding shoreline.
A tsunami wave of justice is coming.
It is coming. It is coming. It is coming.
I wrote that back on 2-13-21 right before the impeachment vote.
I believe we are in the middle of seeing more of these tsunami waves as they continue approaching the shoreline.
The Georgia/state voter suppression laws, Asian prejudice awareness, shipping container and supply line challenges, mask wearing/vaccination for the greater good of all and the George Floyd hearings are some the new waves which come to mind.
That battalion of waves continues to gather and be unleashed.
The great awakening is in its infancy, but growing. A forever changed landscape is forming as each inundating wave washes away that which can no longer exist in this loving and connected world we are forming.
This beautiful and peaceful new age we are entering demands it.
@lovendures At the risk of maybe going a bit over the top with the metaphor, when I read this about "tidal waves of justice", I immediately thought of this post I made a week or so ago, especially the bolded part. The two of them together (in my mind at least!) created a larger picture of the reason for the waves of justice:
I see small snippets of the news online, and the only thing that crosses my mind is that it's all just churn for the masses. While I doubt there will ever be an "official" end to the obstructionists and those who would have us return to more oppressive times, they *are* finished and they know it. Everything we are seeing them do and try to do will ultimately fail; they know it, and we know it. The only thing we need to do for the next little while (a year, perhaps two) is keep reminding ourselves that everything we are seeing is a tempest in a teapot that will disappear in the end. It will end, and we will move forward, with or without them.
The picture I keep seeing in my head is of something slowly rising from under the sea, and the noise they are making is the waves and chaos on the surface that heralds its arrival. It will come, it will appear, and there's nothing they can do about it. As it comes up and is seen by more and more people, their cries and protests will become more and more shrill and desperate as their "truth" is broken, exposed, and destroyed. They only fight and scream and cry because they know that they and their way of handling things is quickly dying, and a new way - a better and inclusive way - will completely supplant them.
Whether something rises from the actual sea or only from the figurative sea of emotions in the collective, something is coming, and I almost cannot contain my excitement. ?
My husband and I were watching the news last night and President Biden was introducing his infrastructure plan. I told my husband, “There’s no stopping this now.” He asked what I meant.
At that moment, I had the strongest feeling that we are well and truly on the road to more and more progress. Gains, forward movement. Things a lot of you have predicted, but I really internalized it last night. Ironic that the feelings of forward movement were related to roads and bridges and internet communication. ?
I love your vision and I want to add that we need to keep writing postcards to help get people back on the voter rolls. The GOP has gone all out this time and they are cleansing the voter rolls in communities of color. It's happening now in Virginia and Georgia and probably in most of the southern states. If anyone needs to know how to help with writing postcards, let me know. I am writing postcards for the Virginia voters right now because a woman in my town has been organizing it. Or perhaps someone here knows an organization that's doing it.
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@lovendures I will admit it’s been a roller coaster of a 10 days for me, but I first wanted to thank you for your post above about “it will come” - I’ve been feeling a similar “stuck” (other thread) as many others. While we were at my mom’s over break she’s begun ret-conning the last few years and now focuses her attention on Biden gaffes as sure fire signs that he’s not in charge. Her theory is dementia and that he’s not really running the country. We had a few go arounds.
Your reminder above is also a question for the good of the group - I will try my own readings on this this week and will report back here. Are we still moving toward the great unraveling and turning point? The voter supression tactics should be slam dunks against the GQP, and while maybe it’s just my little insular deep conservative area up here, but it doesn’t seem to be making the kind of waves I had hoped it would in the places we need to win 2022 and beyond.
I am trying to remind myself of the reading I did before somewhere in here - on Bidens’ first 100 days and his first 2 years in office. On both I read “It’s a slog, but it’s successful.” I’m hopeful my next read still gives me the hope I had a few months ago.
And there is a LOT to be hopeful for - the record number of vaccinations. The length of effectiveness. The unemployment numbers going down last month... I’m just not hearing enough about consequences for folks like Matt Gaetz (lord I dislike that man) and Mitch McConnell’s. And the voter suppression tactics really have me freaked out.
We'll, what is the The Great Unraveling?
Take a ball of yarn. I don't know about you, but I have yet to see a beautiful tightly woven ball of yarn unwind in a smooth and simple way. Sometimes it is unwound to make a sweater, blanket or hat, at other times a craft. If a cat finds it, it wobbles, goes all over the place and often gets tangled.
One thing is for sure, Even if it does get wound up, it NEVER can be wound up again in that same tight ball of old.
Whatever manner our unwinding occurs, the winding back up when it is over will look different. Our nation, our world has changed.
Some may long for the old nice and neat tightly wound ball of yarn. Others will embrace that which has been newly created.
I am quite ready for the creation of something new and am done with storing the potential of "what might be".
I think perhaps while we are trying to carefully unwind the ball, we are also weary of the cat who would love to wreck havoc on all the cherished potential the ball of yarn holds.
Dannyboy, I believe what you got is correct.
It will be a slog, but it will be successful. We can't go back to what was, too much yarn has been unwound. We just aren't collectively ready yet for the full manifestation of all that potential.
@lovendures I needed that. Thank you. The "Stuck" thread is really resonating with me right now.
@lovendures What a great analogy to explain the Great Unraveling. I, too, have been really concerned that the good old boys club was going to get away with all they evil they have done. But your take on how things will be changing gives me lots of hope, now I just have to be patient and watch. Thank you, you made my day.
Joanna Macy writes about how the Great Unravelling and Great Turning are not linear. Rather, they are occurring at the same time. This dual movement is a principal of spiral dynamics (I believe) and harkens to the Latin origins of the word "emergency'; emergens means to go downward and then outward to a new state: emergence.
So yes, @lovendures is correct. We can’t go back to what was. But those of us who are ready can choose what energies we want to link into: unravelling or turning? That’s why I don’t read/watch the news anymore. I’m more interested in the turning to a new phase for society. Our traditional storytellers (news organizations) don’t know how to recognize the signs of that new dispensation. But unplug and the indicators are all around you in nature.
I wrote an essay about this a year ago, so I’m going to stop right here ? .
Thanks Coyote. This is the second time today Joanne Macy has been mentioned in a conversation today. Once here on the site from you and once on the phone. Something to pay attention to.
Unplugging can be really helpful too. I too am very interested in the turning.
A fourth lawsuit has been filed in Georgia:
https://www.democracydocket.com/cases/georgia-voter-suppression-bill-aajc/
For information about cases in other states for similar reasons, you can explore them here on Democracy Docket:
https://www.democracydocket.com/case_type/active-cases/
And now a fifth lawsuit in Georgia:
https://www.democracydocket.com/cases/georgia-voter-suppression-voteamerica/