Let's take it from the top

If I hear one more person in person or online say something like “it’ll be fine, they’ve tried that three times already and it kept dying in committee/didn’t pass” or “they’d never get it through” or “that’s so extreme they couldn’t get it done” or “nah, I don’t think that’ll ever happen” or “they’ll be stopped by xyz part of the system, don’t worry about it” I think I’m going to scream.

“oh they’ll never elect x” “oh that’ll never pass” “oh they’ll strike that down before it can ___” LOOK. AROUND. YOU.

I don’t care if it didn’t pass before. The train tracks weren’t finished yet, they were still being laid. We’re past that now. Steam engines are charging down tracks. Holy shit what is it going to take to make people realize that when your systems are being dismantled and when your world is flooded with eighty actions at a time you can’t just count on things to work out!!! we have to actually do things!

And the VERY FIRST THING TO DO is for the entire population to take the SIXTY PLUS YEARS OF DEDICATED EFFORT that various morality and political allies have put in SERIOUSLY. How many fuck ups does it take? How many failures to take them seriously and listen to the plainly stated goals and plans they laid out over decades?

They TOLD you what they were for. They TOLD you they were playing a long game. They TOLD you they were working to raise future politicians and judges and get them into every position of influence they could from the smallest local levels on upward over time. They TOLD you what they wanted to get rid of and what rules they want to add. They TOLD you who they wanted to vote for. They TOLD you what finance and other issues actually get them angry. They TOLD you their growing hatred for the way you talked about them and treated them. They TOLD you they were being more and more radicalized. They TOLD you they believe they won’t fail. They TOLD you they learned from their mistakes. They TOLD you they were planning, they TOLD you they knew the kind of people not to appoint to power this time around, they TOLD you they learned about loyalism over competency, and that they wouldn’t make the same mistake again.

They TOLD you. They said ALL OF IT. Out loud, really publicly AND privately, for decades, and instead like, the entire non-them population in the U.S. decided to live in happy bubbles where the views and opinions of those backwards lame fools just magically didn’t matter anymore because “the world has moved on, progress, change, yadda yadda” THEY DID NOT HIDE THAT THEY WERE STILL THERE.

And now they have all the power they wanted. They have spent YEARS infiltrating the public internet, the military (yes, even the military—I recommend looking into reports on the current makeup of many military chaplains in the past 5-10 years compared to before), law firms, judge seats, school boards, city councils, and more.

And they either stand by, not doing anything to stop things, or they forcibly rush other things through, and nobody is putting caps on anyone else’s power, except for the way they’re trying to disenfranchise and silence any judges who aren’t with the program, etc.

What. Will it take. To get people. To stop assuming anything will hold. Institutions do not exist. Rules do not exist. They only exist so long as enough of us collectively agree on them AND enforce them when necessary.

Take. Them. Seriously. This is literally the last chance to do so. We are well into our Weimar stage. This is our last train stop coming up. They laid the tracks for years. For the love of everything you care about, please look and SEE THEM.

They’ve told you what they want. They’ve told you how they plan to get it. BELIEVE WHAT THEY SAY.

I’m probably going to delete this whole blog soon. None of this is to say I think we’re 100% destined to go all the way down the paths they’ve hurtled us onto, but it IS to say that unless a lot of people take things a lot more seriously very fast, I believe we’ll continue losing our last few exits off those paths and be looking back from a very, very different world in five or ten years.

They’ve been saying what they plan to do. People who left their groups have been raising the alarm about it for years, decades even. It’s time for the general populace to listen. And if we don’t collectively get our act together, it’s going to be far, far too late. We’re running out of time with every passing week. They didn’t have the surveillance capabilities and extensive data records and data mining and data sifting that our corporations and governments and random hackers do today. It won’t be so simple as the last time around, as if that was simple at all. We’re already starting from a disadvantage. There’s no anonymity anymore if you’ve been so much as born, basically. I wish us all luck if things continue on as they are.

There are good efforts to slow things down. A lot of people, especially judges, HAVE been standing up. But that’s not sustainable unless we plan for it to be. And to plan for it, we have to look at it all honestly and clearly, feel the grief, feel the pressing dread, and genuinely accept reality for what it is. No more bubbles. No more blind trust in people and media sources that say things that we agree with or “make sense” to our personal worldviews.

Things are ugly. They’re going to get uglier. We all have to decide what we’re willing and able to do about that. Who will you choose to be in the worst world you can imagine coming to pass?

Who will you choose to be in one worse than that one?

What can you do to stop it from getting there if you can? What do you see coming down the path, based on what they’ve already said?