{"id":415,"date":"2017-03-27T11:36:23","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T15:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/?p=415"},"modified":"2017-03-27T11:41:14","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T15:41:14","slug":"the-history-i-want-to-repeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/the-history-i-want-to-repeat\/","title":{"rendered":"The History We Need to Repeat"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Echoing \u00a0in my brain\u00a0is the warning that “if we do not learn from history,\u00a0we are doomed to repeat it\u201d. Is that what we are doing here? Repeating the doom of authoritarianism? Fascism? The ascendance of a keptocrasy? Stripping away the rights and dignity of the individual? Having a group in power that no longer represents interests of the citizenry? Maybe.<\/p>\n

But \u00a0the history I want to repeat?\u00a0The American Revolution. We\u2019ve been here before. We have challenged an elite ruling class before. We championed the rights and well-being of the individual before. We \u00a0created a structure meant to protect us from authoritarianism before. We have a history of understanding ourselves as holding the torch of freedom as a light to the whole world.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve screwed the pooch on some of that. Ever so slowly we became\u00a0inured to the disconnect between congress and the people. We know something needs fixed and, God-help-us, enough people thought electing DJT was a good way to change things. The frightening truth is that his election merely intensifies the gulf between the haves and have-nots, maintains the status quo, pits citizen against citizen, and diminishes universal protections for the most vulnerable within our borders.<\/p>\n

People, we know better. We know better than to let fear own us. We know<\/em> the risks and the costs of freedom. And we need to stop being afraid of them. Freedom is risky. \u00a0We know that. We know what happens when power is centralized, co-opted, and abused. If not from our own history, then from the history of the world.<\/p>\n

It is time \u00a0for us to\u00a0own who we are and what we know.<\/p>\n

If we are going to repeat history then let\u2019s repeat our Revolution. We need to own it and carry it forward. We need to ride to raise the alarm. Every shareholder needs to make a stand and contribute to the cause. Just like our first revolution, there will be some who support the powers that be and a\u00a0day will come when we have to make room for them to come back into the fold. But now<\/em>\u00a0let us focus on the work of freedom and muster both the will and commitment to be that straggly band of refusers<\/em> who never give up. It is time\u00a0value the idea of who we are enough to be<\/em> it.<\/p>\n

If we are doomed to repeat history then I don\u2019t want to regret my part in it, do you? I will speak out and stand up to what is hateful, racist, classist, sexist, homophobic, vengeful, greedy, and self-aggrandizing. I am willing to stand, confront, work, get dirt under my fingernails, go to bed exhausted, wrestle with hopelessness, and get up and do it all over again. Like my ancestors before me. Are you willing to do the same? \u00a0Take a stand like your ancestors before you.\u00a0We are an idea whose light will not be extinguished.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s repeat that <\/em>history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Echoing \u00a0in my brain\u00a0is the warning that “if we do not learn from history,\u00a0we are doomed to repeat it\u201d. Is that what we are doing here? Repeating the doom of authoritarianism? Fascism? The ascendance of a keptocrasy? Stripping away the rights and dignity of the individual? Having a group in power that no longer represents … Continue reading The History We Need to Repeat<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,23,25,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":422,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions\/422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}