Drawing Hope from A New Hope

https://www.starwars.com/video/help-me-obi-wan-kenobi

**“If you strike me down I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.” — Obi-Wan Kenobi**

**“It’s not impossible. I used to bullseye womp rats in my T-16 back home, they’re not much bigger than 2 meters.” — Luke Skywalker**

Okay, this one’s from Episode V—The Empire Strikes Back, but I needed a little Han in my life.

2020 has been a year to try men’s and women’s souls, but it’s hardly the first time that our country, our world, has faced such incredible odds. I know the Star Wars universe is fictional, but still, I draw hope from the resistance. We might’ve lost our Obi-Wan when we lost Ruth Bader-Ginsburg, but just maybe we can rise up in her honor, making her more powerful than anyone could possibly imagine.

Peace, people.

Author: nananoyz

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9 thoughts on “Drawing Hope from A New Hope”

TJ Fox says:

September 20, 2020 at 4:35 pm

Love that comparison!

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1. nananoyz says:
  
  September 20, 2020 at 4:46 pm
  
  Thank you! I was so depressed yesterday and then I got this image of RBG protecting us. Weird, I know.
  
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eurobrat says:

September 20, 2020 at 7:08 pm

I’m also comforted when I realize that RBG faced some pretty tough times herself, and rather than curling into a fetal ball and whimpering (not that I was tempted to do that at all…ahem) she stood up and was a warrior. We need to follow her lead…and now that she’s gone, it’s up to us.

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1. nananoyz says:
  
  September 20, 2020 at 7:13 pm
  
  It is, indeed. There’s a really good piece circulating on FB that addresses this. I think it’ll let me share it here:
  
  When the announcement came that Ruth Bader Ginsburg had passed away yesterday, my iPad went berserk. Over a hundred Facebook friends sent me private messages within the first few minutes. They ran the gamut from “We’re so screwed now,” to “It’s all over for America,” to “It was nice while it lasted.” I read the first few and decided that I needed a few hours of space, lest I lose a few friends. So I played some music. I still haven’t even read most of them, and probably won’t for a few days. I have little appetite for negativity.
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  Ruth Bader Ginsburg led a life of constantly swimming upstream. Everything from institutionalized sexism, misogyny, ignorance, bigotry, anti-Semitism, and for her final curtain, five bouts with various types of cancer. FIVE.
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  Throughout it all, never did she throw up her hands and say; “That’s it, I’m so screwed.” or “My life was nice while it lasted.” To the contrary, she never, EVER complained. Instead, she fought. Because she knew the ultimate beneficiaries of her battles weren’t just herself. They were us.
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  I realize these are depressing times, and I confess that I get depressed too. But I have ZERO tolerance for defeatism. Do *NOT* message me to tell me how bleak your world is. What makes you think I want to hear it?
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  If RBG showed us anything, it’s that defeatism is for the meek. And the meek are the lambs that conservatives eat for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
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  Don’t be meek. Be like RBG. Be STRONG. She was all of 5’1” tall, and maybe 110 pounds soaking wet. Yet never in her eighty-seven years did she say to herself or anybody else; “It’s pointless to fight on.”
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  Now is the time for Democrats to assume the role of the wolf. No more lambs. And Goddamnit, don’t you DARE message me with your “woe is me” attitude.
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  Be like Ruth. If for no one else’s sake, do it for our daughters.
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  #BeLikeRuth
  
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  1. eurobrat says:
    
    September 22, 2020 at 2:57 am
    
    Yes!!!! This is exactly what I was feeling as well. We’re heartbroken because our rights and reproductive freedoms may be in danger…when Ruth started her career, many of those rights didn’t legally exist at all! But she buckled down and kept fighting. I will admit that I tend to slip into pessimism very easily, so I need RBG as my role model more than ever.
    
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  2. nananoyz says:
    
    September 22, 2020 at 10:54 am
    
    I feel empowered by the massive amount of donations that have been made following her death. Records are being broken in her name.
    
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shehannemoore says:

September 20, 2020 at 9:43 pm

Sound it leslie. SOUND IT> x

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derrickjknight says:

September 21, 2020 at 8:46 am

Good one, Leslie

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1. nananoyz says:
  
  September 21, 2020 at 10:45 am
  
  😉
  
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