William A Jacobson teaches law at Cornell U and is the proprietor of Legal Insurrection. He was the point person reporting on the David vs Goliath lawsuit by Gibson’s Bakery against Oberlin College. And he posted an article yesterday that will resonate with readers at this blog:
Periodically I’m called upon to
give a Pep Talk. Too often, because that has been the reality of
our political system in the over 14 years since Legal Insurrection was founded.
It’s not easy. I feel what readers
feel. While I play therapist, I’m also the patient. It weighs heavily on me. No
more so than now.
I received this message from a
reader who was unsubscribing from the Morning
Insurrection newsletter, explaining why she was leaving:
“I need to step away for a bit. It
is so overwhelming, I am getting too depressed about where our country is
heading.”
That’s a feeling I have almost
daily. It’s a feeling others have expressed to me apart from that reader.
The swiftness and efficiency with
which the Biden administration has damaged the country is something to behold,
and it’s built on a generation of institutional capture. I could run a list,
but you know already. The current trajectory cannot be sustained, something has
to give.
I wish I had an easy answer. But I
don’t.
I do know that there is no choice
but to keep fighting back. It’s our nature.
. . .
There’s more here. Same message as Dr Robert Malone’s: you are not alone.
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