What would you have done to prevent the Nazis from ascending to power in 1933? That time is now. Leave your comfort behind. Get out on the street. Form alliances with people locally. There is no button you can press to make the future make a turn for the better. You cannot buy yourself democracy, liberty, equality and justice with free overnight shipping from Amazon. It’s not streamed to your living room where you sit on your comfortable sofa.

But you cannot do it alone. You need community and to show up for it. It does sometimes involve sitting in boring bureaucratic meetings of your local branch of a political party or filing the taxes for your local queer nonprofit. It means freezing your ass off on a cold Saturday morning on a pro-Ukraine rally in town. It means writing letters to your members of parliament. If you’re reading this, you’ll probably not attend a meeting in Brussels where the future of our union will be discussed. But the discussion can be had all around you. But your voice is never going to be heard if you voice it alone. You have to ally yourself with the people in your community. The ones are willing to do the scrappy, exhausting or boring work that can move society forward.

Trump ist so ein widerlicher Kerl. “Wirf dich vor mir in den Staub und sei dankbar”. Ich bin froh, dass es Politiker wie Selenskyj gibt, die sich von diesem Mann nicht an der Nase herumführen lassen.

Ich habe heute etliche Stimmen gehört, die prophezeit haben, dass dieser Moment als ein entscheidender Schritt zum dritten Weltkrieg in die Geschichtsbücher eingehen wird. Ich wollte, es wäre nicht so. Ich hoffe, unsere Politik kriegt den Kopf aus dem Hintern und tut endlich was, um Europa von diesem Amerika unabhängiger zu machen.