Future Directions

This is a title I use mostly for Meta musings about changes in the presentation and content of our site (not that I don’t make changes without announcement or have them forced on me by circumstances beyond my control). After consultation with TMC we’ve agreed that the best thing we can do right now is exactly what we have been doing for… my, has it really been 9 years for DocuDharma and 6 for The Stars Hollow Gazette? It seems much longer in blog years.

And that is, as my activist brother puts it, “Documenting the Atrocities”.

We’re still a community blog, open to user comments and contributions, but outside time commitments and changes in platform have made us less fashionable (by the way, if you’re having trouble with your account we can be reached at [email protected] or [email protected]).

Don’t expect our attitudes or policies to be any different from what they’ve always been, though we might sing louder and with more feeling.

Others have different responses and positive actions you can take. I highlight those I find interesting without endorsing them. It’s up to you to decide what to do and we’re not here to judge, simply to present some ideas you may not have considered.

Morning-After To-Do List
By Michael Moore, AlterNet
November 9, 2016

1. Take over the Democratic Party and return it to the people. They have failed us miserably.

2. Fire all pundits, predictors, pollsters and anyone else in the media who had a narrative they wouldn’t let go of and refused to listen to or acknowledge what was really going on. Those same bloviators will now tell us we must “heal the divide” and “come together.” They will pull more hooey like that out of their ass in the days to come. Turn them off.

3. Any Democratic member of Congress who didn’t wake up this morning ready to fight, resist and obstruct in the way Republicans did against President Obama every day for eight full years must step out of the way and let those of us who know the score lead the way in stopping the meanness and the madness that’s about to begin.

4. Everyone must stop saying they are “stunned” and “shocked.” What you mean to say is that you were in a bubble and weren’t paying attention to your fellow Americans and their despair. YEARS of being neglected by both parties, the anger and the need for revenge against the system only grew. Along came a TV star they liked whose plan was to destroy both parties and tell them all “You’re fired!”

Trump’s victory is no surprise. He was never a joke. Treating him as one only strengthened him. He is both a creature and a creation of the media and the media will never own that.

5. You must say this sentence to everyone you meet today: “HILLARY CLINTON WON THE POPULAR VOTE!” The MAJORITY of our fellow Americans preferred Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump. Period. Fact. If you woke up this morning thinking you live in an effed-up country, you don’t. The majority of your fellow Americans wanted Hillary, not Trump. The only reason he’s president is because of an arcane, insane, 18th-century idea called the Electoral College. Until we change that, we’ll continue to have presidents we didn’t elect and didn’t want.

You live in a country where a majority of citizens have said they believe there’s climate change, they believe women should be paid the same as men, they want a debt-free college education, they don’t want us invading countries, they want a raise in the minimum wage and they want a single-payer true universal health care system. None of that has changed. We live in a country where the majority agree with the “liberal” position. We just lack the liberal leadership to make that happen (see: #1 above).

Let’s try to get this all done by noon today.