Getting Started Early

I see a lot of people saying "I feel sick that I didn't do more in the past months to stop this."

I don't think there's anything in the realm of physical possibility that could have been done over the past months that would alter Trump's chances from 50% likelihood of winning yesterday. Not one thing, regardless of depth of effort.

The time to start would have been 2008, at the start of the financial crash - at the latest. Possibly even years earlier. The economic and social disenfranchisement of a large sub-population that led to yesterday has deep roots, and we did nothing to divert it. Not until it was far, far too late.

If you want to change the deep past, you have to get started early. Today I'm looking at disasters that could come 20+ years down the line, that will be absolutely unavertable when they arrive, but that maybe we can still do something to prevent *today*. I'm going to up my donations to certain forward-looking causes very soon.

(As always, fiction is the best way to convey an emotion. I feel exactly like chapters 10 & 11 of HPMoR. To wit: "You couldn't change history. But you could get it right to start with. Do something differently the first time around.")