Senator Elizabeth Warren is inspiring whether you agree with her politics or not.  I happen to be among those who agree with her on almost all of the political issues so when I listened to her speak during the course of her interview on the April 19th Rachel Maddow Show I took her message to heart.  I was riveted to the TV as she passionately spoke about how democracy has changed recently and what the masses need to do to assure that Mr. Trump will not ruin our country during his tenure in office.  She said that voters, whether they are Democrats, Republicans, Independents, or Libertarians cannot afford to sit back and just vote every four years.  She said that we must get informed, get involved, and stay informed and involved in order to help preserve our democracy.

I took the title of this article from the title of Senator Warren’s new book because based on the excerpts that Ms. Maddow read from it and the comments that she and Senator Warren made, it explains to voters what we need to do to get organized and stand up to Mr. Trump.  She further said that we will have to fight and that we will be knocked down and that we will lose some fights.  But, she said, we have to get up and keep right on fighting because by fighting – even if we lose, it develops an attitude; a positive attitude that will help us to always remain in the fight.  I plan to purchase her book and I hope that you will do so too; especially if you are among those who do not closely follow politics and tend to only vote during presidential elections.

Senator Warren said that we should not focus on what Mr. Trump says but on what he does because he is a dangerous man who continues to deal blow-after-blow to the middle class and poor and that many of the things that he is doing are having a negative impact on democracy as we now know it.  I agree with her 100%.  This fight is our fight and we cannot just stand back and watch someone else fight it for us!  Senator Warren also said that those who have been protesting against Mr. Trump and fighting back are not all Democrats; many are Republicans and Independents.

If this article strikes you as a promo for Senator Warren and her latest book, it is not meant to be that.  But I do want to do my part, no matter how small, to help her get the message out that all of us must continue to fight.  I want to do that because it is a meaningful message that all Americans need to hear.  It does not matter whether those Americans are Democrats, Republicans, Independents, or Libertarians; a meaningful and robust democracy should be the goal of all of us.

So no matter which team you are on, let’s suit up and fight for those things that are important to us; those things that are near-and-dear to our heart.  Let’s not be distracted from the fact that Russia interfered with our 2016 presidential election by Mr. Trump’s antics and smoke-and-mirrors tactics.  But instead, let’s remain focused and fight.  That way, although it might take more time than we would like for it to take to get to the bottom of this investigation of Russian interference in our election, we will get to the bottom of it.  We will find out which, if any, of those in the Trump administration colluded with the Russians in this nefarious intrusion into our politics.  Although it matters and is an important piece of the puzzle, the point is not whether they did it to help Mr. Trump win the election or to simply obfuscate to destroy the American voters confidence in our election system.  The most important thing is to find out if they actually interfered in the election and if they did, to amass as much proof as possible to support our conclusions.  Any consequences for those involved in this interference can then be determined and dispensed when and as appropriate.  No effort by anyone, foreign or domestic, to weaken America and our democracy should be tolerated.

Are you ready to fight?

Eulus Dennis – author, Operation Rubik’s Cube and Living Between The Line