We are not going home
Shit might suck, but we are Americans. We always find ways to triumph over our enemies. Sadly they happen to be within our own borders, states, cities, neighborhoods. But we aren't gonna just go out with a whimper. I say we all take this negative, this doom and turn it into anger, strength, and determination we are not gonna let them on the fascist right take over and turn us into an authoritarian world. Our country survived the Civil War, WW1, WW2, the Cold War, etc. We cannot just drop our heads in defeat and run. I'm not running, neither should any of us who want to leave for other countries. This is our home, this is where I was born and will die defending it if I must. If we go out, we go out swinging like we have nothing left to lose. 2022, 2024 and beyond. Whatever happens. We will be remembered as those who stood up and said no. We aren't going to let you have it without a damn fight!
Take each day, take it like it comes. Hold your heads up and fight. Fight until you physically and mentally can't anymore.
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The rage of the 1/4 with their heads on fire is from their inability to stop us and the march of equality that has continued for the last century.
The problem is those using them of course, much more sophisticated and with bigger weapons this time, but so are we, and we outnumber those by hundreds of millions. Poking over 150,000,000 mostly unengaged people who can still vote make these extremely dangerous times for them.
Out of the last national disasters and near self destruction culminating in the 1930s, it was of course the liberalism-dominated Democratic Party that lead the way to unprecedented wellbeing. We're the believers and achievers.
So we made the the big changes required by big, neglected problems. And we did it by protecting, reforming, and building on what worked well and was precious to us in what we inherited from those who came before.
Our grandparents' generations. They weren't better than us, btw. They'd also ignored decades of growing problems because most were doing okay to fine, finally finding themselves in a giant, hot mess that forced them to finally act just a bit smarter. Not permanently, though we did get FDR's New Deal, Truman's Fair Deal, and LBJ's Great Society and many other advances out of their awakening. By 1980, of course, the numbers of those learned big lessons the hard way were dwindling.
And now we're up again.
