We need to stand together to hold accountable both this incoming government, as well as the current government for its remaining time in power. We must do so from a place of love. We must evince humanity and peace. There are pressing issues that must be confronted. These administrations must be convinced that it is best to take care of our environment and promote equality. We must be charitable and frugal to contribute to these causes, and to draw support for them from those who govern us. We must hold to this line tightly. We must keep from attacking each other, while maintaining the fortitude to criticize insufficient ideation thoroughly. Where we see weakness, we must offer strength rather than pain and misery. We must not be content to wall ourselves in and incubate internal, temporary success. We have to address the root causes of global issues. It is a better investment to help others with their problems than to endlessly attempt to shield ourselves from their excess. This must be done in a way that promotes peace and democracy. We must not put the frivolous interests of a relatively few prosperous individuals before those of the multitudes. While it is only part of this world and its history, America is the most powerful nation that has ever existed. We must wield that power with skill and grace to help the planet out of its various crises. If we do not do this, we will fail any mission that could be considered just, and ultimately succumb to the same crises. Where does your scripture or moral compass read that we can be excused for failing to face humanitarian problems–to instead attempt to make them remote–given that we have been endowed with the intelligence to recognize them? As individuals we cannot solve the world’s greatest problems, but as a species, we must. There can be no prosperity where souls are forsaken.