I haven’t written since my last despondent post, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been thinking about… everything. The issue is I just don’t know where we go from here. There have been many large and lovely protests organized with more to come, and we have all of course been on the apps spreading the message of resistance and calling out this clusterfuck of an administration on its constant output of bullshit and fascist agenda. And that’s wonderful and I love it, but… what do we do next? Where do we go from here?
Do we stay the course, as politicians love to say, and trust the courts and congress to stop the orange clown and his storm troopers? He has already openly defied the courts, and the Democratic leadership in Congress has already shown their complete lack of backbone to do…anything, a highly disappointing position which they still hold.
So… what do we, the people, do?
Maybe an ‘Occupy D.C.’ sort of a thing? Just camp out around the White House and bring it all to a halt and make people wake up and listen? maintaining a constant presence at as many press conferences etc. the evil components of administration hold, yelling and screaming, maybe chucking some rotten tomatoes in their general direction… you know, normal political protest type stuff?
The issue is the Pope King Orange Clown has shown he isn’t above directing his Gestapo to use overt force to silence such attempts. He has given them blanket powers to arrest whomever they please, especially the brown skinned tattooed folks, and I wouldn’t put armed response past these thugs, either.
So I ask again… what is next for us?
I have no idea. The only other possibility I can think of is revolt; an absolute concerted uprising the likes of ones in many developing countries in recent history. But that is a very problematic idea, for many reasons other than the obvious ones. To start, who would lead this revolt? After all, a revolution without a leader is usually brutally put down by the regime, as was the case in the recent uprisings in Iran. Secondly, this will have to be an armed uprising, even if it doesn’t begin as one, because all MAGAs are heavily armed and are just itching to walk the street shooting at anything that moves, and many things that don’t. And that is befoire even considering the police and the military’s likely involvement…
At least for now, that isn’t an option.
All we can do is wait and hope. Wait for everyone in MAGA nation, to wake up and realize they have been sold a bill of goods, lied to and used to subvert political normalcies and conventions, and discarded like so much trash,. now that they’re no longer needed. And for the rest of us, to realize actions are sorely needed when words lose their effectiveness.
And hope. Hope for everyone to do the right thing after they have woken up. To stop hating for no reason, to stop exerting power over those less fortunate just because they can. To be good to each other, and to think for themselves the next time this all happens all over again.