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The hourly outrages coming from the Whitehouse are making me ill. I honestly think it’s stressing me out enough to make me dizzy because my sea sickness was gone last night but a half hour look at FB this morning and I have mild vertigo.

I need to find a way to not let this be overwhelming. I can’t do anything when I’m overwhelmed. I haven’t even been able to bring myself to call my representatives. Gillibrand is actually doing pretty great so I write something, hoping it would give me some talking points when I called Schumer. It didn’t. I’m still too stressed out to actually call. I can send this as an email but I know that’s less effective. I’m thinking of maybe expanding it and pitching it to some places to get it published as an open letter.

Dear Senator Schumer,

I have lived in New York for almost half my life and I have supported you and the democratic party for as long as I’ve known what politics were. But that is starting to change. 

I am incredibly disappointed with the weakness you and the democratic party have shown in the recent months and I am not alone. Every democrat I know is begging the party to fight Trump and all the neoliberal horrors he is pushing through but you continue to cooperate with him. 

Every single cabinet member Trump has picked is a fox in the henhouse yet you have voted many of them in. The GOP is working to take away the health insurance of millions of people, to strip our country of important government programs that save lives and create jobs, to drain low and middle income taxpayers for a stupid and pointless wall, and take rights away from our country’s most vulnerable citizens. If you cannot fight that, I cannot vote for you. 

I will find new candidates, I will help fund them, and I will vote you out. I don’t want to do that. Please don’t make me.

You are the leader of the opposition so oppose something already.