Remember that it's easier to hide behind a hundred atrocities than a single incident. The time to dig in is now. Trump and Elon are coming for each other right as his birthday parade rolls up, he's under fire from members of Congress, the Supreme Court, some media outlets, activists, and now one of his biggest supporters. The emperor has no clothes. If now isn't a time to act, then when is? We don't do kings here, we don't do fascists, we don't do dictators. If Donald Trump wants to stand as one, he needs to be knocked back to the ground.
Remember that every inch we give him pushes our lines further back, and it is a downward slope into fascism. We are fighting an uphill battle and even inaction leads to our descent. His need for control is desperate, his need to be revered is intense, his need to be exalted is what he has built his life around. We cannot afford to be an audience in his show, the White House is not a theater, it is a foundation that our way of life is built on under our Constitution. We are not here on Earth to be entertained by a performer, we are here to live our lives. To live for ourselves, for our loved ones, and to do so in a way that we can be safe and free. A failure in preventing this will throw all of that way of life away. We will be giving up life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness if we are too afraid to act.
Remember that as far as Trump is concerned, silence is consent. He has proved that time and time again both inside and outside of politics. Keep writing letters to legislation, start if you aren't already. Keep protesting, start if you haven't already. Keep forcing them to hear you because the last thing we need is for him to think he has our consent.
Remember that the power to change the course of history lies in our hands. Future generations will study this point in time. They will ask those of us that lived through it what we did when a man tried to become king. I hope they don't ask how he succeeded. I hope you don't have to tell them it's because you didn't act.
Remember that we are not alone. The fascist thought machine relies on us feeling isolated, on crushing any inkling we might have that a united front could mean a free life. We may be in the early stages of a blooming fascist regime, but we are still in one. The tactics are tried and true, they have not changed. Authority cracks under the weight of an educated people. Authority shudders at the notion of competent opposition. Free ideas go against everything fascists stand for. And what they stand for is control over every aspect of your being. They cannot control all of us, and they know it, but they will try their hardest so that we don't know who else won't be controlled. Because if we know, then we will realize just how fragile the authoritarian strawman really is.
Remember that we are the people.
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