We badly need a plan, and leadership, to guide us back to the light from this cavern of darkness.
They (the minions of hate and power and bigotry) lost in 1865 under the Stars and Bars banner of racist Confederate slave owners.
They (the successors to supremacy ideology and hatred) lost in 1945 under the swastika and Third Reich propaganda and genocidal madmen.
They (the current strain of vile hate, racism and bigotry) will lose again in 2026 with ICE THUGS and MAGA Hate - however long it takes, to once again extinguish their fire and put down their hateful ideologies.
We beat them in 2020, but we failed to cut the head off the snake and allowed it to scheme and plan for an entire administration how to return to power for another round, we should have collectively been more forceful, more focused on prevention instead of appearances. We should have killed the MAGA movement with its own sword - drawn on the 6th of January, 2021 and we should have made damn sure to convict Trump then of the crimes that should have prevented his legal paths to power.
It seems that every 80 years or so, the world is called on to again confront the dark recesses of humanity's id, and the time is upon us again. We CAN defeat them again, but time is running short to do so without massive loss of life and multi-generational damage to the nation as well.
My grandfathers and 7 great uncles served in Europe (at Normandy) and in the Pacific (Guadalcanal and the Philippines) during WWII. One was captured from air drops on D-Day and held captive in a Nazi prison camp until 1945.
I will not soil their sacrifice or memory - or that of the MILLIONS of dead in Europe, Russia and around the world - by passively accepting this MAGA-ICE-Trump/Miller hate brigade, or their cozying up to thugs like Erdogan or Putin or Xi.
The current regime and their ilk (like masked ICE thugs) are in trouble with me, and the people like me, who are not easily identified by color or race or accent or nationality. I am an ashamed 5th generation white American citizen, but I am also an "insider" in their idiotic and bigoted circles. They see me and they talk freely about hate and 'others', believing that because I look like them that I hate like them as well. Their arrogance blinds them to the fact that I am not with them, I will NEVER support them and my family will fight them BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY to prevent them from continuing this horror show.
I am calling on ALL AMERICANS of good faith with our past, and with what it MUST mean to be "American" in the future, to bring this regime down, to end this barbarism and to restore faith with our allies, justice for our enemies and to build a better future for all instead of a hateful present for those on the margins or horror for those most in need of help and protection.
It is time for economic actions - wise, deep and constant.
It is time for mass civil disobedience - daily, weekly, monthly and in massive numbers.
It is time for general strikes and non-cooperation - silence is complicity; spending is funding them.
It is time to break the "TACO" president - with his phony bravado and fake strength, fake hair, fake complexion and badly made up tiny hands - and then arrest, charge, try and punish his hateful slugs like Noem, Miller and all ICE agents wearing masks and dishing out indiscriminate violence for kicks.
They have sown the fields of their own demise and they MUST reap the whirlwind this time.
I openly welcome any and all Canadians, Mexicans and Europeans (or any nationality) of common ground and vision for a democratic future of cooperation and mutual defense and benefits to likewise join in any and all efforts to topple this American Hitler and his evil minions, to resist and impede, to harm and to halt their advances and actions.
I will work with anyone that establishes resistance of ANY kind inside these formerly (and future) United States to further those aims and thwart those of the evil in power at the moment.
This nation is always at its best when it is an idea, and an ideal for the world's peoples - an example to see, to embrace and to emulate and use against the forces of hate. The fundamental idea that governing authority derives from the CONSENT of the people; and not from the whims of madmen, the destructive desire of dictators, the egos and lust of evil men, or even the basis of who was where, when, or first. Americans are not those residing on North American shores between Mexico and Canada or in territories affiliated with a government in Washington D.C. - it is the concept that a Constitutional Republic is the pinnacle of human governance systems and that it can and must change to meet the needs of the moment and those of the people, always!
I love America the idea.
I loathe what America the country is in 2026.
I hate the current usurpers and stains that occupy her today for their actions and depravity and lack of basic humanity or empathy.
I am also BEGGING all European football fans to boycott the FIFA 2026 World Cup matches in the USA.
Do not come here, do not spend money here, do not prop up this criminal regime with ANY support.
And if the regime and its thugs are still menacing the people and the world in 2028, DO NOT come to Los Angeles for the Olympics either.
Boycott entirely, or better still - hold competing events, off US soil, to drive home the resolve that the WORLD is not accepting of this dangerous group of racist thugs in masks and executing real Americans like Renee Good and Alex Pretti.
Say their names, remember their murders and seek retribution and justice!
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Otherwise,
Leaders will lead when the people lead them.
Someone won't let "Profiles in Courage" be relegated to the fiction shelf.
I started with these earlier. Others are welcome to step up.
A retired military leader?
A progressive business person?
An ordained minister and senator?
A person who has done the most to give spine to legislators? (Ezra Levin)
A representative who speaks for the people, tirelessly and brilliantly?
You Gov says:
https://today.yougov.com/ratings/politics/popularity/Democrats/all
Led by progressives.
Hitler was not defeated until his entire country was defeated.
We have the responsibility to do everything possible to prevent another holocaust.
Hitler didn't have an Epstein, though.
Thoughts?
The matter can be investigated outside of the "Defenders of Jeffrey" brigade, A.K.A, DOJ.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220810679
The Build Back Better Plan is an economic initiative proposed by President Joe Biden aimed at investing in
social, infrastructural, and environmental programs to support recovery and growth in the U.S. economy.
OP is talking about a different darkness, and welcome to DU.
