The inauguration was great!. Biden said the right things. Amanda Gorman was spectacular!

But, let’s not make the mistake we did when Obama got elected. We thought the government was in good hands and we could go back to making documentary films.

The margins that Biden has to get things done is tiny. He needs to make things work and we need to make it clear who is standing in the way. Get to work at your local and state level. In just two years there are Senate seats in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Wisconsin that can be flipped from red to blue. But Georgia and maybe Arizona need to be defended. There are house seats that were lost this time that cam be regained.

If progressive polices are going to emerge, it helps to start at the local level. Keep people enthused. It’s our government, not the crazies and ultra-rich, but we have to keep at it.