He’s on his way, this guy who is our President. And he’s not even subtle about it. He’s taking over every portion of our system that could possibly stop him. The legislative branch is already falling off the tree. The judicial branch is losing its authority from Orange Julius’s constant castigation of every judge who doesn’t rule in his favor. He’s starting to stop us from speaking out by coming after those who do – even the big guys like Associate Press. And he has his own army. You know them. You’ve seen them. Remember January 6? And these lunatics have already become a powerful force. Republicans have said that a main reason they always vote for whatever he wants is because, if they don’t, they and their families get physically threatened by the Jan6 Brigade.
So, we know all this. What are we going to do about it? The frightened people I hang out with always talk about one particular option -get the hell out of here. Eventually, if we talk long enough about that, someone says, “Yeah, we don’t want to be like the Jews in Germany who stayed.” Well, we’re all Jews in Germany now. Are we going to stay?
This in the age-old moral question of what to do when you find yourself in a place that is run horribly. Do you leave to you-know-not-what, or do you stay and fight from within?
The people in this country that we admire as our Founding Fathers are all folks who stayed and fought. And they fought with actual guns. With apologies to The Beatles, I’m not talking revolution, just some good-old public protest, the kind we learned in the sixties and now have forgotten. I include myself, of course, among the lapsed.
Maybe the example of the Founding Father staying is only compelling because they won. The staying Jews didn’t.
I had hoped that by the time I got to the end of this blog, I would have come up with a good reason to either stay or go. I am now at the end of this blog and I don’t have a clue.
We were right 