Somewhere in the Gulf of Mexico, right now, a Rice's whale is moving through deep water.
It doesn't know what was voted on March 31.
It doesn't know there are only 50 of them left.
It doesn't know that its Endangered Species Act protections — the last legal barrier between its survival and unchecked oil drilling — were just removed by a committee that met for 30 minutes.
It's just living.
The question is whether we'll let it.
History is slipping from the minds of Americans.
The French Revolution did not begin with a guillotine.
It began when regular people couldn’t afford bread to feed their children while the elite continued living as though nothing was wrong.
History suggests that societies become unstable when suffering is concentrated.