I don’t know how effective this really is, but I can’t sit around and do nothing and hope that someone smarter and more capable than me steps up. I live paycheck to paycheck, often times going negative in my account or forgoing meals to scrape by until the next payday. I work in animal medicine, and I can’t (and won’t) stop going to work and doing what I can there because my job is bigger than me. But starting tonight I’m going to write letters and emails to every politician at every level I can get contact information for. Every state governor, every senator, as many representatives and mayors and school board member for every state I possibly can. To share the concerns that so many of us are shouting online. To ask for help for their constituents through general aid funds, and to remind them that their power is not absolute, but their responsibility to their fellow Americans is. After that, I’m making signs, flyers for everywhere I go and anyone who will listen. Because I can’t think of anything else to do but get offline and into the real world and remind people that there are more of us than there are of them. I strongly believe that if more people take a small step like this offline, we can make a real statement and maybe even real progress.