Shania Twain,Brittney Spears - and Trump.

When I work out in the morning I put exercise videos on one tablet and music video play lists on the other - I LOVE YouTube! This morning Shania Twain's " I feel like a woman" came on followed by Britney Spears "Stronger" - both were in tight,black,low cut outfits, lots of dancing, etc... they were made about the same time. But while Shania's was objectifying(men staring and I swear one licked his lips like a dog), Brittney's..was inspiring. She made it clear you could be a woman and still succeed - or as one transgender parent observed on a Ted Talks - "when you take away feminine you're left with masculine, is that the message I want for my daughter? That there's something wrong with being a girl?". Are you wondering where Trump works into this? Because my train of thought wandered while I was planking.... and I thought about how had we, in a country full of smart strong women allowed this misogynistic mess stay in office? But you know what - every cloud has a silver lining - even Trump

The best way to unite a country, a people, a front is to have a common enemy. When Gandhi stood against the British in peaceful protest, they left. The story of Hanukkah, history is full of examples of people pulling together and overcoming. He's such an awful person, isn't he? At his inauguration he was far more concerned with trying to convince people that thousands, not hundreds had attended while ignoring the millions that showed up to let him know he needed to leave. His attacks on Planned Parenthood were wildly unsuccessful, they're still open and we are still fighting to keep our rights to abortion and birth control. His latest outrageous attempt to control our border infuriated - but.......

For the first time in a long time I think a lot of us are really considering what is important to us. None of us want families separated but on the other hand we are more aware of the need to control immigration. Our crops are rotting because we cannot continue to allow illegal aliens but is there an alternative? I think we're already finding it because we have to. We are fighting the good fight every day whether it's donating to Planned Parenthood, signing petitions or marching - we are counting. And we continue because the best way to get people to fight for their rights is to take them away. Had we gotten too complacent, turning the other way? All of these things have been going on all along but until Trump  pushed our faces into it, that he wants all these bad things - we have been forced to look at it and find we can no longer accept all of these injustices. Do I want him to have a second term? Absolutely not - one was more than enough thank you and in the grander scheme of things we would have been much better off not having to endure his antics whether it's his open admiration of a despot or his collusion with the russians. But in the end he has made us a better people as we come together to fight our common enemy. But who would have ever thought in a million years the Enemy would be our own president??