Tip of the hat to http://all-hat-no-cattle.blogspot.com

Historian Heather Cox Richardson and political analyst Simon Rosenberg conduct a live discussion of where we are and how we need to proceed at a Commit To Democacy Town Hall. Their perspective and analysis was riveting and their guidance inspiring to over 3000 attendees on a Webinar. – commit2democracy.com

“We have to keep the pressure on our leaders because part of our job is to help explain to our politicians what’s expected of them now. Because their jobs have changed. They used to be legislators and executives, and now they need to be communicators, amplifiers, influencers. and leaders of this new  ferocious opposition that we have to build together. – Simon Rosenberg

“Everyone keeps saying as you just did, our leaders have to take the bit in their teeth and actually, in other periods in our history that have been similar to this, not as bad, it’s the complaints of the people that have raised a certain new leader, a new kind of leader. We create them and we create them through the way we talk. And one of the things I want to work through with you today is what does that story sound like? Reagan rose to power with the idea of the individual against the empire which is of course a mythical idea that was encapsulated in 1977 with star wars. What is our narrative?”  – Heather Cox Richardson