We Are Worth Fighting For

To the Editor:

No matter who we are, most Americans want to do what is best for our families and to leave things better for those to come. Time and analysis will reveal many truths about what happened in this election, but what’s clear is that voters around the world are rejecting the status quo. They see that the current systems serve billionaires instead of working families and want something different. This leaves them vulnerable to the twin lures of authoritarianism and cynicism.

It’s okay to feel any number of things right now, and we must all do what we can to take care of ourselves. But fascism feeds on and requires despair, and our families and our futures require our committed, connected, continuous engagement and our boots-on-the-ground resistance. Fascism never solves anything. Instead, it only creates and thrives on chaos.

Our struggle for liberty and justice for all goes beyond any single week, year, or election.

Our ancestors have faced and fought oppression before, and now it is our turn to pick up the baton and show up – marching, striking, and protecting each other– for our freedoms, families, and futures.

Our values are worth fighting for. Our families and futures are worth fighting for. We are worth fighting for.

Kirk Pate Flatonia