What Would Lincoln Do?

As I greatly despair at the almost unimaginable roll back of environmental regulations and the lack of attention to solving the climate change crisis, I think about politicians who worried about the country they were elected to govern.  Lincoln was elected at a turbulent time, where there were powerful forces that felt strongly on both sides of the slavery issue.  The end result was that the country literally split apart, it was that extreme.  So the divide that we are experiencing now is not unprecedented.  And is it really that different from the slavery debate.  Clearly it is on the level that we do not own other people, on paper, at least.  However, politicians have allowed the separation of children from their families, children who they had not intention of reuniting from the very beginning, because they made not even the tiniest effort to keep track of them.  The tolerance of ever more obvious racism, sexual harassment, and religious discrimination, on top of scorn for the social safety net, is all very much in concert with people who think themselves superior to others.  These are not good people.  They are selling our planet and our children's future home for oil and gas profits.  It is a crisis, and they are plotting how to make bank on it rather than responding.  And it is their children's future home that they are trashing.