What kind of week has it been?
Writing these monthly notes to you is a good way to go on record with what’s most pressing in our Party and community. Full confession though, sometimes I don’t get to it EXACTLY on the first of the month – and in this era, that can be dangerous. In this chaotic time, my notes from only the day before read as prescient as those film reels from the 50’s that promised us each a robot butler in our homes by 1990 – comically out of touch with how history is actually playing out.
Rather than rehash a dark litany of the week’s news it is our choice to look forward at the coming year. The GDCC will continue to meet and to be a sounding board for local Democrats and progressives who see our nation and its government as the ongoing experiment in liberty that it is, rather than something to savagely attack. We look forward to the true beginning of the Biden/Harris era, and a return to responsible government. This coupled with the recent victories in Georgia that secure us the Senate, we can now truly expect progress rather than the obstruction of the McConnell era.
Despite the hopefully fairer winds blowing from Washington, this does not mean we are standing idly by this year. It is our responsibility to hold the new administration to account on their promises and the bold action that they must now undertake to heal this nation, eliminate the threat of COVID-19, and assure our allies that the United States is back.
We look forward to seeing you all at our first meeting of the year this Thursday. For a format, we’re doing something that we’ve done many times right after an election. Rather than having a guest come to talk about policy or an issue, we’re turning the meeting over to our members to talk about the election, their experiences, what they hope from this new era. We’ll see you all on Zoom, this Thursday, January 14th at 7pm.
Democratically yours,
Matthew C. Murray