NOT LIKE US
The growing intolerance of minorities and, in particular the LBGTQ community which challenges tradition, is rampant in T****’s MAGA America. It should not be necessary to point out that the totalitarian governments of the 20th century jailed and killed freethinkers, outliers or simply “the other.”
But it’s a cliché that seems to need repeating, since contemporary autocrats follow the same path, and as with the right-wing MAGA’s in this country, many of them, like Adolf Hitler, included the targeting of LGBTQ people.
In the T**** era this has already begun. Hatred and rejection of LBGTQ Americans, along with the bigoted dogma that goes with it, is an important part of the MAGA’s autocratic agenda. Its purpose is no less than to take away the rights of people whose life imperatives and choices they don’t like.
Indeed, dictatorial power rejects humanity and compassion as it contrives to subject the population to it’s hateful will. Under an autocrat’s tyrannical hand those of good faith have few options in defense of the targeted, the marginalized and the oppressed.
But they must be defended. The conscience of humanity demands nothing less. People of goodwill must respond to that imperative. Our fellow citizens, our fellow human beings depend on it. On us.
Silence works in the oppressor’s favor. There is really only one strategy, one way to oppose this evil and to do what must be done because it is right. In the courts, on the streets, on the ballot and with one voice, there is only one path forward.
RESIST
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