When I skate around the edges of the political zeitgeist rink with colleagues or friends, it’s clear many people want a “return to normal.” This year is an abnormal year—pandemics only come around every 70-100 years or so, after all. The surreal circumstances of the year have highlighted the built up incompetence and corruption of our government though, and a return to “how it was before” would only be a resurrection of the opaque facade from which our political system masqueraded behind. To achieve true representation for all Americans, we cannot passively wait for this to pass, to merely languish until tomorrow. We must demand change, and act on our deepest convictions, of which the vast majority of us actually agree. Freedom, equality, and justice are there for the taking, if we want them. But they must indeed be taken.