How It Stops, How It Ends
We are in a moment of national crisis unknown since the Civil War.
America is teetering on a thin edge, poised to descend into state violence, mass repression, and the elimination of life and liberty for million of American citizens at variance with the Trump regime.
We must stop it. We must end it.
There’s a difference between how it stops and how it ends.
It may seem like a trivial parsing, but it isn’t.
What is happening in America today must stop, but it must also end.
There is no alternative if we believe in the dream that America once was, the dream of a nation and a people bound not by blood-and-soil nationalism or grunting populism, but by a sacred inheritance, a propositional nature in which being an American meant being governed and bound by laws and the Constitution.
Nothing will make a low-tier MAGA “intellectual” (an oxymoron of such ludicrous toxicity I hesitate to even commit it to print) squeal faster than describing America as a democracy. They’ve heard just enough to fear democracy as the untrammeled rule of the mob, the horde, the people who want things, and they believe their first-year dorm room b.s. session affect of, “We’re a republic, not a democracy, libtard” settles any argument on this front.
What they miss is that the party, the leader, and the power structure they’ve embraced with a fiery passion in the last decade has ended that Republic, to say nothing of the democracy it once governed.
I’ll say it, and with a damn heavy heart.
We have squandered the astounding inheritance of ten generations of Americans before us, shattered the bond of faith and trust in a system of representative government unique in the history of the world, and replaced it with a grotesque mirror image of freedom, liberty, and self-government.
What has replaced it is dark, sick, and broken. It is a government led by the most egregious criminal in American political history, a man with a dark soul, a twisted mind racked with mental disorders and pathologies, and a will to power that rivals the dictators and strongmen we once understood without a blink of doubt or question to be the antithesis of our values. He is the kind of man Americans once sent their son to fight and defeat.
He is served by a party, a movement, and a media that view him as a nearly religious figure, a man of destiny willing to smite the people and cultures they hate. Some view him as a useful idiot, delivering regulatory and tax giveaways to America’s struggling billionaire class.
