By Edward Miller

Tired of listening to your liberal friends whining about the election and its aftermath? Of course things are terrible, but a sky-is-falling paralysis will get us nowhere. In this household, the daily battle cry is GOYA: Get Off Your Ass.

In the last week or so we’ve marched with 60,000 of our most intimate friends to the capitol in Atlanta, demonstrated in front of Rep. Tom Price’s congressional office in Roswell (of course he wasn’t there and his staff had closed the office); attended a meeting of the Cherokee County Democratic Committee, a county that voted 80 percent for Trump; committed to attend a town hall held by the Democratic Caucus in the Georgia General Assembly; launched a neighborhood action group under the banner of “Indivisible” (more on this in a minute), and joined a conference call with 25,000 others to learn how to take against the Muslim ban.

Our point is not to boast, but to stir. Everything we do may seem inadequate against the onslaught of lies and the erosion of every civil liberty we cherish. Still, we’re determined to do something every day, even if just a politely annoying phone call or email to remind a congressman that by killing the Affordable Care Act millions will suffer and thousands will die.

If you want to join the GOYA movement, here are five things you can do:

• Call your local Democratic committee and ask what it needs. The first answer will be “money,” so give some. Get in the habit. $25 at a clip each week or so won’t break the bank, but it will sustain financially and emotionally the shock troops in the party. Then volunteer to do something. There’s lots to do.

• Click this link (https://www.indivisibleguide.com) and download the “Indivisible Guide.” You’ll find lots to think about and do. Then do at least one thing.

• If you’re on Facebook, search for “News and Guts,” a dynamite site set up by Dan Rather. It’s loaded with the work of top-notch reporters and editors and is a wonderful source for something other than alternative facts. While you’re at it, go “like” Dan Rather’s personal Facebook site. Another good site is Bill Moyers’.

• Subscribe to the online editions of The New York Times or Washington Post. They’re inexpensive and the best value in journalism. Besides, every newspaper in the U.S. is struggling. Do your part and support a free press.

• FYI, you’ll receive “The Moral Compass” on the 1st and 15th of each month. Spread the word. Send the link to your friends and neighbors. Post the link on Facebook or Twitter.

It’s your choice: whining or winning. As Cindy and I tell ourselves every day: GOYA. Your voice needs to be heard.