I have been getting myself into darker and darker places in which finding a course forward is not seemingly possible. Everything said in this piece feels irrefutable. Getting active on social media is a guarantee of scrutiny by the regime that looms. Joining groups that can serve as "the resistance" feels like rearranging the chairs on t…
I have been getting myself into darker and darker places in which finding a course forward is not seemingly possible. Everything said in this piece feels irrefutable. Getting active on social media is a guarantee of scrutiny by the regime that looms. Joining groups that can serve as "the resistance" feels like rearranging the chairs on the deck of the Titanic.
Everything I know and know anecdotally is irrelevant in the scenario that looms. You have to admit: This piece gives substance and proof to the alarming fears we shared before the election. A brilliantly conceived coup is on the verge of destroying America, of making America unlivable.
By the standards of what we still have, apparently, none of this is stoppable by law. What is clearly treasonous cannot be averted. We actually watched all of this coalesce, through the acts and actions of the Supreme Court, The Heritage Foundation and Trump/MAGA itself, seen it growing in strength and ominous threat, and have done NOTHING to stop it.
As I start my day as a retailer in the middle of the holiday season and trying to look forward, I find myself completely stopped in my tracks, frozen. I am painted into a corner, and I don't know what to do. Protestation is futile and pathetic. I have been distraught and bleak, knowing that an oncoming freight train is likely coming. Now I see the headlights.
SO many people have read the things I write on Facebook and either mocked me or felt the intensity of my aggravation, panic, anger, disgust and despair and urged me to lighten up. None my angst has made any difference, of course. Now I wonder if they haven't been right all along. I may recover. I hope I recover. But right now, I feel pretty bad.
One last thought: Why NOT declare martial law, right now, while there is still some sanity? What's to lose? Has there ever been a more dire threat to the United States of America? Am I REALLY in the place in which I fervently hope for a military intervention?!?!?
I can't see the economy continuing to function. Perhaps as many as 200 million of us are going to either actively boycott the economy as much as we can, or just not be in any mood to spend money and do things, because we are so upset. This may trigger a giant recession.
I prefer that over an economy that endorses the horrors by remaining healthy.
Okay, then. if that much acquiescence is in the cards, I am ready for that too... I will immerse in nature, while I still have freedom of movement, and will still work locally to encourage my fellow progressives to start bonding in old face to face ways, because electronic media are about to become useless and dangerous.
And if I know I am targeted for openly opposing the cult- now-government, I will take my own life peacefully, rather than allow them the pleasure of secretly imprisoning me where nobody will know I have been sent. I will also, while still alive, wait for Radio Free US to start broadcasting from Canada. It will be a scary world of no access to truth from soon, until then. I will need what I just described -local face to face friendship, and nature, during that interval.
The outlook is indeed depressing but we can't give up. There are also other forces at work that may help to bring the trump system down. All of their agendas will definitely hasten climate change and destroy the economy. This might be the best outcome.
but, an intervention to do what exactly? Democrats are inherently law abiding. I give credit to Biden for pardoning his son; I doubt that he'd go any further than that.
I have been getting myself into darker and darker places in which finding a course forward is not seemingly possible. Everything said in this piece feels irrefutable. Getting active on social media is a guarantee of scrutiny by the regime that looms. Joining groups that can serve as "the resistance" feels like rearranging the chairs on the deck of the Titanic.
Everything I know and know anecdotally is irrelevant in the scenario that looms. You have to admit: This piece gives substance and proof to the alarming fears we shared before the election. A brilliantly conceived coup is on the verge of destroying America, of making America unlivable.
By the standards of what we still have, apparently, none of this is stoppable by law. What is clearly treasonous cannot be averted. We actually watched all of this coalesce, through the acts and actions of the Supreme Court, The Heritage Foundation and Trump/MAGA itself, seen it growing in strength and ominous threat, and have done NOTHING to stop it.
As I start my day as a retailer in the middle of the holiday season and trying to look forward, I find myself completely stopped in my tracks, frozen. I am painted into a corner, and I don't know what to do. Protestation is futile and pathetic. I have been distraught and bleak, knowing that an oncoming freight train is likely coming. Now I see the headlights.
SO many people have read the things I write on Facebook and either mocked me or felt the intensity of my aggravation, panic, anger, disgust and despair and urged me to lighten up. None my angst has made any difference, of course. Now I wonder if they haven't been right all along. I may recover. I hope I recover. But right now, I feel pretty bad.
One last thought: Why NOT declare martial law, right now, while there is still some sanity? What's to lose? Has there ever been a more dire threat to the United States of America? Am I REALLY in the place in which I fervently hope for a military intervention?!?!?
I can't see the economy continuing to function. Perhaps as many as 200 million of us are going to either actively boycott the economy as much as we can, or just not be in any mood to spend money and do things, because we are so upset. This may trigger a giant recession.
I prefer that over an economy that endorses the horrors by remaining healthy.
Nice idea but I doubt that it will happen. Look at the record black friday sales and Thanksgiving travel. People don't want to give this up.
Okay, then. if that much acquiescence is in the cards, I am ready for that too... I will immerse in nature, while I still have freedom of movement, and will still work locally to encourage my fellow progressives to start bonding in old face to face ways, because electronic media are about to become useless and dangerous.
And if I know I am targeted for openly opposing the cult- now-government, I will take my own life peacefully, rather than allow them the pleasure of secretly imprisoning me where nobody will know I have been sent. I will also, while still alive, wait for Radio Free US to start broadcasting from Canada. It will be a scary world of no access to truth from soon, until then. I will need what I just described -local face to face friendship, and nature, during that interval.
The outlook is indeed depressing but we can't give up. There are also other forces at work that may help to bring the trump system down. All of their agendas will definitely hasten climate change and destroy the economy. This might be the best outcome.
You nailed it! Our leaders are not fighting back! They fear for their lives!
but, an intervention to do what exactly? Democrats are inherently law abiding. I give credit to Biden for pardoning his son; I doubt that he'd go any further than that.