I feel like our “protest organizations” such as Indivisible and NoKings are also hopelessly out of touch with what’s really going on. They’re still planning a rally for the end of the month when action is needed right now, this coming weekend if not sooner; a general strike and mass protest. I feel like a lone voice in the wilderness.
Didn’t Socrates say courage is the highest form of virtue? And to have courage we need to understand, have knowledge of the world we live in?
I’m no philosopher but it is courage that is in dire need. Courage to look through the glass darkly and realize what the situation is right now. That obscurity is a powerful force upon us. And courage to see reality as it really is. To see trump for what he is. To cut through the distraction and fake images and lies.
United we stand. Divided we fall is a siren warning. The emergency is upon us.
This is exactly what plagues my heart and mind every day and every night. It’s what I seek to write about in my poor, clumsy way. Mike, you hit the target so well.
Precisely. “What does the moment require?” ‘He who hesitates is lost’ (in optics, in polls, in fear of losing a seat in Congress before realizing that the greater threat is losing our democracy). Complacency, Citizens United, cushy perks have brought us here, and We The People must lead us out and onward. What we have morphed into is not worth saving, but the best parts of what we could be are.
I keep reading this call to action made by bloggers everywhere to us who are sitting in our dens at home reading their wise words. I vote, I protest, I write my elected officials who are all Republicans and so ignore every correspondence they get from me. I post my disagreement with the regime on social media. I no longer sit with civility through conversations about what is happening to America. I've even broken out my history books to remind myself of how we did it during the American Revolution. But the reality is that I don't have automatic rifles or drones or tanks or missles and that is ultimately what it will take and where we are headed. Only the people who actually know how to take over a country are going to be able to set things right. That will be our military - which way are they going to fall? Being part of the resistance in today's world is much more difficult and perilous than it was 85 years ago or 249 years ago. This has gone too far to sort it with votes because the Republicans are not going to let that happen. They do not sanctify life. Their gods are power and greed and they are firmly in control.
I feel like our “protest organizations” such as Indivisible and NoKings are also hopelessly out of touch with what’s really going on. They’re still planning a rally for the end of the month when action is needed right now, this coming weekend if not sooner; a general strike and mass protest. I feel like a lone voice in the wilderness.
Excellent!
Didn’t Socrates say courage is the highest form of virtue? And to have courage we need to understand, have knowledge of the world we live in?
I’m no philosopher but it is courage that is in dire need. Courage to look through the glass darkly and realize what the situation is right now. That obscurity is a powerful force upon us. And courage to see reality as it really is. To see trump for what he is. To cut through the distraction and fake images and lies.
United we stand. Divided we fall is a siren warning. The emergency is upon us.
I was born in the Republic and by God I will die in the Republic.
Learned helplessness. So well said. The portal beckons us all and we need to walk through it.
This is exactly what plagues my heart and mind every day and every night. It’s what I seek to write about in my poor, clumsy way. Mike, you hit the target so well.
Precisely. “What does the moment require?” ‘He who hesitates is lost’ (in optics, in polls, in fear of losing a seat in Congress before realizing that the greater threat is losing our democracy). Complacency, Citizens United, cushy perks have brought us here, and We The People must lead us out and onward. What we have morphed into is not worth saving, but the best parts of what we could be are.
I keep reading this call to action made by bloggers everywhere to us who are sitting in our dens at home reading their wise words. I vote, I protest, I write my elected officials who are all Republicans and so ignore every correspondence they get from me. I post my disagreement with the regime on social media. I no longer sit with civility through conversations about what is happening to America. I've even broken out my history books to remind myself of how we did it during the American Revolution. But the reality is that I don't have automatic rifles or drones or tanks or missles and that is ultimately what it will take and where we are headed. Only the people who actually know how to take over a country are going to be able to set things right. That will be our military - which way are they going to fall? Being part of the resistance in today's world is much more difficult and perilous than it was 85 years ago or 249 years ago. This has gone too far to sort it with votes because the Republicans are not going to let that happen. They do not sanctify life. Their gods are power and greed and they are firmly in control.