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Marianne's avatar

Providing a historical context to today's events is helpful, even hopeful. But nonetheless I am struck by the irony of the peaceful transfer of power to a man who did his very best to violently wrest the outcome of the 2020 election from the American people.

I will not be watching today. Instead I will be making calls to my Congressional representatives, asking for their vigilant protection of democracy. I will be thinking about what I, one citizen, can do during the next four years. I will read some of MLK's speeches and wonder what he would ask of me.

We must keep Trump from making the concerns of our Founding Fathers into a reality.

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Rosemary Ford's avatar

As Rudyard Kipling said, “If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs …”

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