The federal government of the United States is
on shutdown. I will quote an India Arie
song title Come Back to the Middle –
that is what our men and women in Congress must do. “To get to the top, you must come back to the
middle.”
I don’t know about other parts of the country,
but here in Washington, DC, people are just holding on. Holding on to hope, holding on to the dream
of going back to a workplace that will be slightly different from the one they
left. Holding on to the hope that the
Washington Redskins can beat the Dallas Cowboys so that we can restore some
pride in DC. Right now the DC government
is also hostage to the federal shutdown because the budget of this city must by
endorsed by the U.S. Congress.
Holding on is the game we must play right
now. What would it look like if a
majority of the federal workers decided not to take this limbo anymore? Would we have a revolution in 2013?
