We need righteous indignation at policies that are causing enormous unnecessary suffering, the wasting of huge quantities of money and the undermining of a civil society.
Added to that, women need righteous and strong men who will help us to use our most cherished gifts: the ability to multitask and problem solve.
Thousands of years ago, we may well have needed a Righteous Judge in the Sky as a myth to keep us in line.
That is precisely why people band together, form organizations, and participate in grassroots movements and campaigns: to construct the collective power needed to make righteous demands politically potent.
Frederick Douglass famously said, "Power concedes nothing without a demand". That is precisely why people band together, form organizations, and participate in grassroots movements and campaigns: to construct the collective power needed to make righteous demands politically potent.
What's needed is a little righteous indignation.
All it needed was Gwen's righteous dressing down to Leila from Hollyoaks, who has now re-trained as a Doctor who turns a blind eye to state genocide.
And to be able to help people whose futures hang in the balance of your humanity is so needed, so worthy, so righteous, such an amazing humanitarian thing to do".
They need to feel righteous, especially when they are being selfish, and nowhere more so than in the Obama administration.
We don't need one more righteous lesson, we've already had too many.
