They tell themselves it can’t happen here. That the courts will save us, that institutions will hold, that this is just another election. But history doesn’t wake the sleepwalkers gently. It shatters them.
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I never thought the American people were stupid enough to fall into an authoritarian trap, but here we are. But people always try to act normal in the face of social upheavals, right until it becomes untenable. Eventually, revolutions start when everything blows up all at once.
Cause you can’t guarantee that your time on earth will coincide with world events. idyllic 1950s, felt liberated in the 60-70s and benefited from education and career success. common template for many 70+. Im not sleepwalking as much as being freaking shocked that i didnt get away unscathed.
Don't forget Croatia - they're deep down that abyss.
I invite you to take a few minutes and translate the Croatian language wiki page on fascism: https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fa%C5%A1izam
Focus on aesthetics, struggle against communism and to find mention of war crimes or anything immediately reprimandable!
Yeah, it takes 10000% valiant effort to come back from the brink. You have to be in the streets. You should have seen the sizes of protests my friends attended. It’s all hands on deck.
So the democracy comes down to Justice Roberts seeing how
Justice Coney Barrett votes before committing to limit Trump's power grab. So really it all comes down to what the woman on the court agree to?
Fantastic essay as usual. How can we get more folks to read it? I'm gonna keep sharing these essays around online. But online people exist in echo chambers it feels like. The people I want to read this--reaching them is proving to be REALLY fucking difficult.
Most Dem leaders are still sleepwalking! Where is @schumer.senate.gov? @gillibrand.senate.gov sent me a form email Feb 20th (!) saying she looks forward to thoroughly evaluating nominees for exec branch jobs.😳
@jeffries.house.gov is on a book tour.
Wake up! Speak out daily like @murphy.senate.gov!
The compromised Republicans haven't started changing laws to enable the real fascism, yet. They get past the budget and their enormous tax cuts for the rich that bought them, they'll get down to making trump king in more than name - or trump will set his red hatted mob on them!
The courts won't save us, Congress won't save us.
It's up to us, THE PEOPLE, to divest in the oligarch's businesses, deny politician's lies, and disobey wherever we can.
The time for being polite and trying to compromise is over.
You can't compromise freedom and Democracy.
Trump Is Planning to Take Control of the Postal Service, Officials Say - WSJ.
Dictator Trump will also take control of the US military.
Every major news outlet needs to report that there is a dictatorial coup taking place lead by Dictator Trump.
If they’re not reporting they’re not doing their job
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I invite you to take a few minutes and translate the Croatian language wiki page on fascism:
https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fa%C5%A1izam
Focus on aesthetics, struggle against communism and to find mention of war crimes or anything immediately reprimandable!
Hoping the next protests are bigger.
𝑲𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒍𝒆𝒔 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒆𝒙𝒆𝒄𝒖𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒏 1649, 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒆 𝑲𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑳𝒐𝒖𝒊𝒔 𝑿𝑽𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒆𝒙𝒆𝒄𝒖𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒏 1793. 𝑩𝒐𝒕𝒉 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒆𝒙𝒆𝒄𝒖𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒚 𝒃𝒆𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈.
I think that I’ll hang around to see what happens to this one…
𝑰 𝒄𝒂𝒏’𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒊𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒑𝒐𝒐𝒑𝒚𝒑𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒆𝒆𝒕 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒇𝒂𝒕𝒆!!
Justice Coney Barrett votes before committing to limit Trump's power grab. So really it all comes down to what the woman on the court agree to?
It’s all arbitrary.
@jeffries.house.gov is on a book tour.
Wake up! Speak out daily like @murphy.senate.gov!
It's up to us, THE PEOPLE, to divest in the oligarch's businesses, deny politician's lies, and disobey wherever we can.
The time for being polite and trying to compromise is over.
You can't compromise freedom and Democracy.
Dictator Trump will also take control of the US military.
Every major news outlet needs to report that there is a dictatorial coup taking place lead by Dictator Trump.
If they’re not reporting they’re not doing their job