🧵 As this administration’s myriad violences unfold daily, I continue to hear “hot takes” from pundits that blame everything from “wokeism” to poor messaging as the cause for Democratic defeat. Each take exhausts me. #BlackSky 1/
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Put simply, we cannot fix what we will not face. This administration is not an outlier of the U.S. political system. It is the root rot having risen to the surface. 2/
Think about all the things you love most about what the U.S. offers, the greatest comforts, the conveniences, the greatest places of ease...
Now tell yourself the truth. 3/
The ingredients of the American experiment can not be unbaked, loves. We must grieve this sickeningly sweet dream and all the ways we ingested and invested in it, 4/
We must tell ourselves the truth and then...
Grieve.
Grieve what you will have to give up, let go of, accept. Grieve your complicity and collusion with this deadly project. Grieve Meta and X. Grieve Target and Amazon. 5/
Grieve waste and consumption.
Grieve what has always been in the cake and your choice to continue dining. 6/
There are next steps, but this is the first.
Grieve so you, we, can let go. There is no other way. A new life will cost you your old one.