IT’S ON US
It has come to this. Consider these words spoken on the floor of the House:
“There is no longer any middle ground. The ideology [of the American left] is pure evil.They hate the good, the truth and the beautiful and embraced the evil, the false and the ugly. And they, literally, will kill those with whom they disagree.” — Rep Bob Onder (R-M0)
This is pretty harsh stuff. It used to be that in response to events like the Kirk shooting, politicians from the lowliest House member to the highest elected officials would at least give lip service to the idea of ending the violence and uniting the country. Not any more.
In an interview two days after the Charlie Kirk shooting, President T**** concurred with Onder’s vehemence. Quote the Prez: “We have radical left lunatics out there and we just have to beat the hell out of them.” The interviewer asked him “How do we fix this country?”
T**** replied, “I couldn’t care less.”
And I’m thinking, of course not. Bringing the country back from the brink does not fit his agenda. He wants autocratic control and the rise of civil strife will give him the excuse to send more soldiers into the streets, to declare marshal law, to put the population under his thumb. And he could do it.
T****’s grasp on the reins of executive power grows tighter and his Congressional toadies and his hand-picked Justices are all aligned to serve him. He lusts for power, the machinery is in place and it is in motion. We are literally under the gun, here.
And we are on our own. No one is coming to save us. Not the courts. Not some last-minute hero. And certainly not the politicians. People may want to believe that someone, somewhere will stop Donald T**** before it’s too late. But that is just wishful thinking. If democracy is to be saved, it will not be by any of them.
No. If democracy is to be saved, it will be saved by us.
Democracy will be saved by those who understand that the maintenance of freedom often demands personal risk and are prepared to accept that risk. The call to action was made decades go much more eloquently than I ever could:
“There’s a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part. You can’t even passively take part. And you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop. And you’ve got to indicate to the people who own it, to the people who run it, that unless you’re free, the machine will be prevented from working at all.” — Mario Savio, Berkeley Ca., December 2,1964.
We are beyond the point where holding placards alongside the road or making a few phone calls is a relevant response to T****’s offensive against the democracy. Yes, we can fill the streets with the cries of millions; that may be enough. And yes, we do have the ballot box. But the way the MAGA’s are preparing to sabotage next November’s election – if there even is one – that’s not a sure thing, either.
The bottom line is that our democracy is in peril and may not be saved by those who simply refuse to be silent. It will be saved by those who choose to act. By the those who commit throwing themselves on the gears, the levers and the wheels of the machinery.
Those now in power must be made to know that absent the forms of government and freedoms guaranteed by our Constitution, the machinery will not be allowed to work. And that the people can, and will stop T****’s rise to dictatorial power.
It will be saved by those prepared to stand fast and are willing to take the One Path Forward.
RESISTANCE
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