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[quote=Anonymous]I hope you found DCUrbanMoms (and Dads) politics forum -

An open letter,

Which one of you did I see peeking out the window of Treasury last night while the protesters were in the streets? You kept coming to the window of the top floor and peering out at the number of protesters below. I noticed you'd watch the crowd for a bit, then dart back inside for a couple of minutes. You kept returning to the window though. I wondered how much you could hear from the streets below.

You are the same age as my own kids. You looked young and nervous. Much younger than the crowd of those people that were protesting. Many of us out there last night have lived and worked in DC. We are not your enemy. Most of us are teachers or scientists or engineers that have worked for decades for the citizens of the US to build and create and help direct the investments the US has decided to make in infrastructure.

I remember being your age and wanting to do something fabulous at that point in life. It's easy when you are nineteen or twenty and really bright to feel like you can accomplish something great. I suspect you might have gone into this with the best of intentions, but now after not sleeping for two weeks solid or maybe catching a bit of sleep on Elon's sofa beds, you might be starting to wonder what you got yourself into. Maybe you thought there was a lot of corruption to root out in the federal government and this felt like something you could do to help? Maybe it just felt like an intellectual challenge? I could tell when I saw you looking out the window last night that you were no longer sure this was a good idea.

Given your profiles, I suspect that you probably played a bunch of role player games in your younger years, so I'm going to put this in the language of character alignment. I've found that most young kids prefer to align themselves with lawful good or neutral good or chaotic good. Some will follow the rules; some are willing to break them just for the fun of breaking them. In all my years of teaching, I've never seen a kid consider themselves evil. I suspect when you started this you saw the task as chaotic good or lawful good depending on what you were initially told about the need to break the Deep State. There is no Deep State though. We are simply public servants who take our jobs seriously, whether it be building infrastructure, finding vaccines, feeding the poor, protecting art and antiquities, building satellites, or paying the bills for all the above.

Many young people make mistakes. That's the beauty of being young. You still have time to fix this, but your time is running out. How do you want to be remembered? Be brave. Don't just peer out from the windows of the Treasury. Put an SOS sign in the window or something! Join Alt National Park Service FB group. Call your parents. Your mom is probably worried. Lock Elon Musk in a closet. Tie him up on the sofa bed. Hide his stimulants. Better yet swap them out with something that puts him to sleep for a day so you can get help. As Mr. Rogers said, " Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping." You probably even have addresses and phone numbers (and bank account numbers!) for every helper out there. Give one of us a call. Soon.

And finally as Gandalf said, "All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us." Me? I'll continue teaching those that some think should not be taught. Raising my kids to be lawful, neutral, or chaotic good. Building community and neighborhoods. I long ago gave up the thought of being famous and well known, but at least I won't be infamous.

What will you decide to do in the next few days?
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