Thread by @tobeequal

I believe it is not a stretch to suggest that our nation is in the midst of a civil war. While I in no way want to suggest that our struggle of today has the equivalence of the events that confronted Lincoln and the deplorable atrocities of slavery, it would be a mistake of

cataclysmic proportions for us to fail to recognize the extraordinary events that are occurring and to put them into some overall context. Doing so could result in our losing the war without even knowing that we were in one.

First, the lesson of COVID is that our liberties are

hanging by a slender thread as businesses are forced into closure, the right to attend church is restricted, individuals are required to conduct themselves against their will by an action not of Congress or a Legislature but of a governor. A “bit much?” Tell that to the couple

in bankruptcy or the pastor of a church or the mom & pop business owner or the family faced with mortgage foreclosure. And, then we come to our rights as citizens. Lincoln said at Gettysburg that we are “a nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men

are created equal.” What has brought thousands of us together to oppose Prop 16? Our civil right of equality is threatened in CA as it was a few months ago in the State of WA. A group known as Black Lives Matter has claimed that America is “systemically racist.” In CA,

the same rationale was used to launch Prop 16. When we experience the same events in CA as they did in Portland, in Seattle and elsewhere, and threats are made that “everything is on the table,” we tend to view these things in isolation. A civil war? A “bit much,” he says.