Doing your part. A note to investors.

Stopping the United States, our country, from its daily grind even further toward an authoritarian police-state dictatorship under Donald Trump is going to require more than just reading the news, being upset, complaining, blaming, and shaming, hoping it will make a difference. We are running out of time to stop it. How can we individually make a difference? One way to do your part:

401Ks, investment funds, ETFs, and individual equities:

Which companies are your investment funds invested in? Likely some or many that have in one way or another supported this administration and therefore its policies and agenda. With no individual control over which companies a fund invests in, it may be time to either take a second look at funds and even divest from funds and invest in individual equities that are not in any way supporting this regime.

Challenge their political positions by taking away their capitalization.

If a company financially contributes and otherwise supports this regime, this means they support weakening our institutions, our democracy, our standing in the world, our prosperity, our safety, and our nation.

It’s only when we shift our priorities to begin being individually, personally willing to give up some benefits and wealth building for a period of time as investors, as consumers, that we will be fully engaged and engaging the power to stop what’s happening.

If you do not support this regime and what they’re doing, it’s going to require your time, energy, and attention. Attention that until now has been easier to overlook.

You will have to invest time to do this, or seek advice from your financial adviser.

True to the old expression: We have to put our money where our mouths are.