Good morning!

Nice OP

I felt calm for a moment after I read your words. It didn't take long for all the other words I've read to come seeping back in though.
It seems people are putting a lot of hope on June 14th. I'm worried about June 15th and there after. I can't believe how many people have totally closed themselves off from what is going on. They have children and thankless jobs and just can't take the time to parse out what is real and what is propaganda.
I fear we have spent too many years believing the fallacy that we are exceptional, so we don't need to worry.
I'm so tired of worrying. 😟
But, I do hope you are right and I wish I was having coffee with you right now so you have more time to convince me that we will all be okay.

Yankee ingenuity,
I've see so many funny and creative signs are the rallies. Yes in our tiny rural part of northern Wisconsin!
This, plus solidarity and persistence will see us through this terrible time.
Thank you.

We're not Weimar-era Germans. We are not born and bred to absolute, unquestioning obedience to civic authority. We're a rambunctious lot, the very embodiment of the messiness and seeming-chaos that comes with a vibrant democracy. Sooner or later, a demagogue, no matter how strong his hold on the public imagination might be, is going to go down through sheer, greedy overreach. Joseph McCarthy is probably the best example so far of this in American history.

Of course, right now in American history, the electorate has been taken over by poorly-educated bullies who are incapable of abstract thought. The word 'freedom', no matter how much they burble and blither it, is meaningless to them unless some concrete example of freedom is taken away from them. (Guns, for example; probably the only relevant example when talking about Trumpsters). Talk about civil liberty, civil rights, power to the people, checks and balances on civic authority, the rights and responsibilities of the citizen, etc, and they will tune out or just shrug. As long as they have their tractor pulls, their monster truck rallies, their Bud Lite, their NASCAR, and of course, their guns (which they will never, ever employ against real, actual, genuine tyranny), you can oppress them endlessly. They have no principles to uphold, and so make the perfect targets for power-crazed dictators.

We will see if cuts to their Medicaid will actually rouse them from their deeply uninformed slumber...

was built like an old plaster on lath home - the wood lath type. They are very difficult to knock down. That does not mean the damage will be light.

going on right now... what in the world will it be like in the middle of the night with the two of them going at each other on their social media platforms..