I found it way too difficult to say proper thanks this year to all the people who deserve them.

How do I thank people who are risking their lives, saving others while I’m safe?
How do I thank career civil servants who have been abused for 4 years & kept doing their jobs for us?

How I do I properly think whistleblowers who have been scapegoated?
How do I thank experts who have been ignored year after year & now called fear mongers & had their lives threatened?

How to acknowledge people in the free press who were called fake but created limits by exposing things when there was no shame to be had?
Is there a way to thank people for making sure our democracy didn’t die including when Trump tried to overrun the election?

The best way I know how is to do a better job listening to the people ignored, follow their examples, fight for changes, be willing to be more uncomfortable...

Oh— And to do whatever the fuck I can so we never go back here again.