Reaching the Breaking Point

I've been thinking a lot about this quote from Mario Savio from 1964 "There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part; you can't even passively take part, and you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!"

For many of us, that point was the day Trump was elected. But for others, it hasn't come yet. It's worth asking: what would it take? Is it the swastika painted on your church or temple? The rounding up of millions of immigrants, including your friends, neighbors, co-workers, congregants? Harassment and violence visited on Muslims or Jews or LGBTQ people you know by empowered white nationalists? The pipeline or coal mine or frack-well being built in your backyard? What is your breaking point?

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