I Just Opened the Chat. Here Is the One Question Nobody Wants to Answer Out Loud.
You already feel it. That low hum in your chest every time you watch the news, read a headline, or sit across from someone at dinner who shrugs and says things will work out. You feel it and you are not saying it out loud. Almost nobody is.
Last Saturday morning I published a piece called “A Historian Spent 30 Years Interviewing Nazis. He Identified 12 Warning Signs of Fascism. All 12 Are Present in Trump’s America Right Now.” If you have not read it, stop everything and please read it now.
Now here is why I am posting today. I just opened up our community chat and I need you in it. Not tomorrow. Right now. Because I am going to ask you a question that most people will not answer publicly, and I think this community is different.
Can you honestly say we are not making the same mistake that everyday Germans made during the Nazi regime?
Silence is an answer too. And it is the wrong one. The chat is live. Get in here and say what you are thinking. The people around you need to hear it.
Mitch Jackson, Esq.
WE are definitely on the slippery slope. Two strikes against us: 1)too many MAGAs in Congress, and a (severely biased) Supreme Court.
I have little reason to expect much from this administration. They are corrupt to the core and the nepotism is disgusting. The US today is simply not the same country that helped defeat fascism in 1945. The US today has embraced fascism and Christian nationalism. Between the wealthy elite, the political rot and the protection of the financial industries that make all the rot possible, we are on the most slippery of slopes. I am glad I am in my mid 70's. I will do everything I can to stand in the way of this complete hijacking but I fear there are too few of us to reach critical mass to effect the top to bottom change that every person of decency should be clamoring for. I wish I could be more optimistic. I always think back to the old saw of "What one generation tolerates, the next generation embraces." It seems like the GOP long game, knowingly or not, has brought the US to its knees. Can we find our footing against this thoroughly wicked, evil and cruel farce we now have as "government?" That will be the question of the 21st century.