"The narcissist-in-chief will not hesitate to order bloodshed against peaceful protestors. There is only one person in the life of a narcissist, and the psychopath is devoid of empathy. Trump is both. Trump and Musk ONLY care about the Treasury $ dollars that they can keep unspent to fund their tax cut. I hear people exclaim how unfair this is for those kicked into unemployment." This is all true. And this will hopefully be the thing that pushes Americans into revolt. However, in my mind, the most DANGEROUS thing happening is what's going on internationally. I think that people are coming to understand the financial situation. Very few, I expect, understand the international situation. I pray that you are right: millions of people will rebel. The number of guns in this country today (400 M) compared to 1970 (100 M) makes me wonder which way a street fight would go.
I also find myself thinking of Russia in February, 1917. Thousands of Russians went to the streets to peacefully protest government incompetence, economic hardship, and hunger. In response, the tsar's soldiers shot and killed 1,300 people (out of a population of 125 M). This was the start of the Russian Revolution. Could this happen today? Certainly government incompetence is an issue in the United States now. Economic hardship, perhaps even hunger, is surely on the way. Will people protest? Will it have to come to such an untenable situation for people to protest in large numbers?
I'm meandering in my thoughts. Your article is superb, and has brought these thoughts to mind.
We will do as we have always done. It will escalate gradually until we storm the ramparts. No sense getting anxious about this. We just have a hard fork in the road. We will do what we have to do, just like your Mother did. Like my Mother did.
I wish I was younger. I was able to do so much during the VN war era -- arranged for buses to take UNC students to Washington, DC multiple times for protests, including nixon's counter-inhoguration; a column in the student newspaper. I was a real activist. Now I'm pretty much home-bound (can't drive, use a walker). All I can do is write my substack (which began as simply a list for me to keep track of what's going on. It's ballooned, to my shock). I worry that I don't see young people doing much of anything. Do you see that happening?
Yes, let’s meet that fork in the road and witness the release of it once and for all, in unity, in peace, in harmonious right relations, in this moment, together sovereign sane learning
"The narcissist-in-chief will not hesitate to order bloodshed against peaceful protestors. There is only one person in the life of a narcissist, and the psychopath is devoid of empathy. Trump is both. Trump and Musk ONLY care about the Treasury $ dollars that they can keep unspent to fund their tax cut. I hear people exclaim how unfair this is for those kicked into unemployment." This is all true. And this will hopefully be the thing that pushes Americans into revolt. However, in my mind, the most DANGEROUS thing happening is what's going on internationally. I think that people are coming to understand the financial situation. Very few, I expect, understand the international situation. I pray that you are right: millions of people will rebel. The number of guns in this country today (400 M) compared to 1970 (100 M) makes me wonder which way a street fight would go.
I also find myself thinking of Russia in February, 1917. Thousands of Russians went to the streets to peacefully protest government incompetence, economic hardship, and hunger. In response, the tsar's soldiers shot and killed 1,300 people (out of a population of 125 M). This was the start of the Russian Revolution. Could this happen today? Certainly government incompetence is an issue in the United States now. Economic hardship, perhaps even hunger, is surely on the way. Will people protest? Will it have to come to such an untenable situation for people to protest in large numbers?
I'm meandering in my thoughts. Your article is superb, and has brought these thoughts to mind.
We will do as we have always done. It will escalate gradually until we storm the ramparts. No sense getting anxious about this. We just have a hard fork in the road. We will do what we have to do, just like your Mother did. Like my Mother did.
This is the attitude I share with those around me. You may as well not worry until it's time too.
I wish I was younger. I was able to do so much during the VN war era -- arranged for buses to take UNC students to Washington, DC multiple times for protests, including nixon's counter-inhoguration; a column in the student newspaper. I was a real activist. Now I'm pretty much home-bound (can't drive, use a walker). All I can do is write my substack (which began as simply a list for me to keep track of what's going on. It's ballooned, to my shock). I worry that I don't see young people doing much of anything. Do you see that happening?
There is good and growing protest action going on. Watch this space, as Rachel says.
I will indeed watch your space!
Well said…we are definitely there! Pray to God no bloodshed!
“In the year 1967, the right had escalated drastically into a useless and expanding overseas war.”
Actually it was the Democrats who did that, but don’t let history stand in the way of your story.
A sign I swear I will get around to making for myself to carry:
We will FILL THE STREETS
If needed, we will FILL THE JAILS
If necessary, we will FILL THE CAMPS*
But WE WILL NOT SURRENDER
(*If there's room on a sign for it to be big enough to be read from a distance.)
Yes, let’s meet that fork in the road and witness the release of it once and for all, in unity, in peace, in harmonious right relations, in this moment, together sovereign sane learning
https://youtu.be/H9oLSMSW4SI?si=6hWTQQpaX6_oIg_Z