Fair warning - If you are a true believer in the MAGA movement and believe that President Trump is doing what is necessary to preserve America, then you probably will not like at least some of the thing I am going to write. Your agreement is not necessary or even expected. I would urge you to consider what is written here and present a cogent, reasonable refutation. I will respond, in the same vein, to tell you why I think you are wrong or agree whole-heartedly if I believe you to be correct. I promise.
First, let me explain what I think is going on. Donald Trump is the perfect front man for a group of small people who want to be gigantic. Stephen Miller is now, and from what I can read, always has been a fascist. But he is the man behind the movement, as far as I can tell. He might be a fascist, but he ain't stupid. He is using every tool at his disposal to manipulate people, events and history. (Have you read Orwell's 1984?) He is using governmental powers and prerogatives to undermine virtually every other institution in American society - not that these institutions hadn't pretty much shot themselves in the foot. The church has become a weapon of white nationalism. The media has become more about a news anchors or influencers opinion than the facts - forget the truth. The current administration spews lies like fountains spew water and there is no credible nay-sayer.
But when the President blows boats out of the water in international waters because he can, when troops are illegally deployed in American cities, and only those cities that are overwhelmingly Democrat, and then looks straight at the camera and lies about why - When people are wholesale manhandled into unmarked vans by masked "agents' and sorted out later to determine if they can further be deprived of their rights and humanity - When the President, the only convicted felon to ever hold the office, deploys military troops to "control crime" - When the President publicly instructs the Attorney General to prosecute his political enemies and she does, we get to the heart of the matter, control.
None of these actions have any purpose other than to instill fear and assert control over the people most likely to disagree with the current political regime - at least for now. I will state plainly what I have always believed - If you let someone or something take away rights from anybody, you are in line to lose them yourself. If you take away Jimmy Kimmel's right to criticize the President, then you stand to lose your right to criticize anyone or anything that the people you have just granted that right to decide what you should or shouldn't be able to criticize. It starts with Jimmy Kimmel - it ends with everybody having to tow the party line, tovarisch. Hitler was freely elected as Chancellor of Germany - look it up.
I despise what is happening to America. I do not blame Trump. I have some modicum of blame for Congress, who decided a long time ago that their job was not to represent their districts, it was to tow the party line and get re-elected so they could keep paying themselves with insider information, a super retirement plan and all those unused campaign funds. No, the ones to blame are us. The American people are the ones that didn't show up to the polls, didn't raise our voices when we should and could have, we didn't hold our Congresspersons accountable to our demands or even their own promises. We got ourselves here, where fear and force are the methods of politics.
Fortunately, if the courts will continue to do their job, we can change it again. Raise your voice, call your representatives in Congress and demand they do their job. Write letters, text, post TikTok videos, shout it from the rooftops that we will NOT BE AFRAID. And most importantly, VOTE! Register and VOTE! We got ourselves into this mess, we can get ourselves out. But only if we use the tools given to us, our voices and our votes.
Change the political market, demand your representatives represent you and the rest of the constituency, hold their feet to the fire. When MTG starts speaking truth to power, something is changing, the wind is shifting. Be a part of that change.
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