Good protest at the Courthouse yesterday! But…
Hi Neighbors;
We had about 17 people at the Courthouse yesterday! Good visibility, and no trouble; many people drove by trying to ignore us, a few yelled at us from cars, but a surprising number honked in approval and gave thumbs-up. I think a lot of Rocklanders are upset and feeling isolated, so this was good – we plan on doing it again next week!
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I get that some of you are worried about the potential for MAGA violence at these events… At this point, frankly, I am so concerned for my children, my grandchildren, my country and the world, that if there IS violence, I’m happy to take the risk if it serves to make people wake up before it’s to late. It may be that we need Pearl harbor. So here comes the rant:
The real reason that our Democratic politicians are paralyzed and unable to act in any meaningful way, while Trump dismantles democracy, is that they are completely wedded to their corporate donors’ campaign money, and afraid to alienate a single penny. This much is painfully obvious and Trump’s litany of unchallenged lies last night could not have made it more clear. Our politicians don’t care about their actual human constituents, and haven’t for decades (since corporate money became protected speech).
Bernie Sanders, who has been drawing large crowds at Town Halls in MAGA territory during recent months, is right and has been all along. It has been excruciating, over the last 8 years, to watch monsters consolidate their wealth and power with the collaboration – unwitting, or just self-serving and clueless – of our elected Democrats, while those same desperate Democrats have continued to fail the very constituents who are now mesmerized by visions of Trump’s largess, to the exclusion of all facts or reason. The only Democrats who have been speaking out at all, in any way effectively, are on the far left; that’s where we all need to go. The myth that we need to cleave to the center in order to win Republican and Independent votes is just that: a failed myth, and a dangerous one. And we have to STOP BUYING IT.
We are fighting billionaire Nazis armed with AI. In this fight, your hedge fund neighbors are not your friends. Your tech bro neighbors? Not them either. In the rarified atmosphere of billionaire get-togethers you may be seen as useful peons – a step up from the troglodyte slave class – but nothing like the superior beings that are created from the melding of great wealth and “visionary” thinking. In their delusional minds they are a new type of human, creating a new order (sound familiar?) that will save humanity by efficiently employing it in the service of their visions.
We’ve lived through this thinking before, but just barely. This is a new ball game. Do we have any balls?