To the small audience who comes to this page: this is definitely a terrifying time, to say the least. The White House will soon be infested once again by Donald Trump, a felon and failed game show host, and JD Vance, a quisling turncoat. The ketamine-riddled man-child, Elon Musk, will have a little office near to Trump, so he can easily whisper in Trump's ear. Bezos, Zuckerberg, and Cook have all kissed the ring. The "Democracy Dies in Darkness" slogan of the Washington post has been undercut by “Riveting Storytelling for All of America," as if it's slowing morphing into the National Enquirer.
The center seems not to hold. So many people are afraid of what will happen, starting tomorrow, on Infestation Day. I really think these clowns will ultimately engage in a cage match and beat each other to a pulp, metaphorically. I pray it is not before immense suffering is visited upon innocent citizens.
Niceness needs to go out the window on the part of Democrats in office: just as the Republicans never gave an inch on Capitol Hill, so do Democrats need to be pit bulls now. We citizens can do what we can, but we are not in the very locus of the fight.
The ACLU website is a wealth of information about resistance, and I strongly recommend visiting the site often:
https://www.aclu.org/
In Cormac McCarthy's The Road, a father and son walk through a post-apocalyptic world. There is no government, no food, no safe homes: people have devolved into the "bad guys" (lawless, murderous cannibals) and "good guys" (a smaller group of people who maintain their humanity and sense of decency). The father and son discuss what it means to hold onto these things:
We wouldn’t ever eat anybody, would we?
No. Of course not.
No matter what.
No. No matter what.
Because we’re the good guys.
Yes.
And we’re carrying the fire.
And we’re carrying the fire.
Yes.
Okay.
With insanity all around, with ignorance and fear trying to drag us down, holding on to one's humanity (and all that goes with it--the ability to resist, to stay strong, to believe in one's agency) is the final, last hope of a better world to come.
The flame of goodness and decency, of everything that is true and right, is now in the hands of the good guys.
Be strong and carry the fire.
1 comment:
Wonderful post. Been in a funk since November 4, so it’s great to read something that gives me hope for the future.
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