Monday
I’m at North Myrtle Beach with my five grandchildren this week so my posts will be short. I share this Walt Whitman poem from Leaves of Grass that someone posted on Bluesky. While the poet is addressing the States—”or any one of them, or any city of the States”—his poem extends to the current day GOP, whose Congressional members overrode whatever inner qualms they had about the Big Beautiful Bill because have become fully enslaved by the cult leader.
The rest of us must “resist much, obey little” if we are not to lose our remaining liberties. Continue to do what you can.
To the States
By Walt WhitmanTo the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist much, obey little,
Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved,
Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever afterward resumes its liberty.
