At noon that same day, Donald Trump and J.D. Vance will be inaugurated as President and Vice President of the United States. We will not be watching the inauguration.
Some may think that it’s sour grapes, or disrespect, or something worse that are leading us to do this; after all, our candidates lost the election.
They would be wrong.
Nor are we coming together to pout, or to lick our wounds, or even to develop some grand strategy of resistance.
We are gathering on that day at that time to remember a man who looked at the United States of America and saw in our future a nation of equals before the law. Ours would be a nation whose government was committed to assuring that none of us could deny others of us our basic human dignity, nor our right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness as sibling citizens of one country.
Not, perhaps, a nation in which we’d all love one another; that’s too much to hope for. But it’s not too much to dream of a nation in which no-one gets away with trampling upon anyone else, and in which no collective power can treat anyone with impunity.
We will gather to own again Lincoln’s conviction that government of, by, and for the people—of, by, and for all the people—shall not perish from the earth.
We will not be a large group, by intention. So, if you like our plan for January 20, perhaps you would consider inviting some folks to join you in doing something similar. Think of it as a bright, sunny high noon of our collective spirit.
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