Terrified?! Time to Fight the Dictatorship
Trump and MAGA want you to quit. Get Over Your Fear. Harness Anger. Let’s Organize.
In Common Sense, Thomas Pain wrote, “These times that try men’s souls …” This statement reflects at least 81 million Americans' feelings today. We are physically sick, bewildered, and despondent that American Democracy is ending without a fight. Donald Trump being held accountable led to a political backlash by a Supreme Court that decided they were officially the MAGA Court. Trump bragged that he bought the court and that they owed him; the threats, personal pressure, corruption, and conniving finally paid off. They not only ended every case against him, but they armed him with the tools to be the first successful American dictator.
To quote the brilliant Mel Brooks in the movie The Producers, “It's enough to make ya heave.”
For those who say, well, it can’t be all that bad. Please recount that in the movie Judgment at Nuremberg, Spencer Tracy played the Justice who had, on trial, the Nazi supreme court. That court had authorized Hitler to legitimately dehumanize Jews and imprison political enemies, which led to a war where 60 million people lost their lives. Every decision Hitler made was because the Supreme Court gave him the authority to do anything he wanted in Germany. Under German laws, they made it all legal. Not just burning 6 million Jews to death in ovens but also legally and quietly executing 300,000 Germans who had a physical disability, mental illness, or any character they felt was not Aryan enough. The completely legal order from Hitler, called Aktion T4, was sanctioned by the German Judiciary because they empowered Hitler to act as he saw fit in his official capacity as Reich Chancellor.
The US Supreme Court gave Donald Trump and any future president the same power. As long as it is official, it cannot be considered criminal. So now you can all call July 1, 2024, American Dictatorship Day.
Just as Hitler had been freed to do as he pleased by a judiciary that acted as the political execution squad of the Nazi party, so has America lost its judicial branch by fiat. Six unelected judges gave away American democracy; at least 70 million Americans cheered it on.
Former Vermont Governor Howard Dean contends that America no longer has a functioning Democracy. Why? Because we no longer have a functioning Supreme Court. He is right; the corrupt Roberts Court has completely and totally lost its legitimacy. No one apart from MAGA loyalists will ever trust it again.
America now has only two functioning branches of government, and they are teetering by a thread. Do not forget that, with the ruling, Donald Trump has absolute immunity for anything he does or says as President. Anything he says or orders, no matter how corrupt or treacherous, cannot be used as evidence against him in any proceeding. America is now essentially a dictatorship.
Embrace Anger
I am also certain you are most likely sick of the non-stop coverage that gives Trump’s insane rantings a pass. I feel you.
I want you to harness your fears, anxieties, shrouds of existential dread, and dark clouds of political doom and turn them into a singular focus: ANGER.
I want you to adopt a phrase from the Jedi Yoda not as a warning but as orders:
“Fear leads to Anger. Anger leads to Hate. Hate leads to Suffering.”
If you were like me, you are not just terrified; you are getting angry. Good. That’s what I want to see. I want to see you not just angry but ANGRY! Nothing comes to you in life until you have been adequately motivated to see the threats to your own survival. So, I want you to harness that anger, which we are going to turn into action and reveal our hatred of what has happened and arrange some political suffering for MAGA, and give it to them … hard.
So, are you angry that America has changed from a democracy overnight?
Good BE ANGRY.
So, are you afraid you could be arrested for criticizing Trump?
Good BE ANGRY.
So, if you are upset that the America you know has just validated dictatorship and the courts you thought were moderate and fair are dangerous and corrupt?
Good BE ANGRY.
So, if you are worried that words and actions by a President cannot ever be used as evidence against them, but women who want birth control might be arrested as enemies of the state next year?
Good. BE ANGRY.
So, if you are frustrated, could Trump’s NY fraud trial, which resulted in his conviction on 34 felony counts, be vacated because the Supreme Court wrote the new ruling specifically to free him from every charge he was accused of?
Good. BE ANGRY.
So, if you are finding out the news media is utterly unfair to Democrats and call for Joe Biden to quit but ignore Trump’s Project 2025 and NEVER call for him to drop out?
Good. BE ANGRY.
Well, by now, you have picked up on the theme. For decades, the Republicans have been organizing to carry out their plans to change the face of America into a dictator-led autocracy, and that day has arrived.
Many of you were waiting for someone to arrive to save America. Some of you still think it will be Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Others believe it should be someone else, but here are the facts, Jack: No one is coming to save us. We are the Rescue party.
Embrace that because it will be helpful to remember the Democratic elite pundits who claimed insider information on what is good for the party, especially their breathless exhortations to get rid of Joe Biden. These are the same people who say dump the first black female vice president because they have determined she is not good enough. These are the same people who attacked Hillary Clinton. These are the same people that supported Bernie Sanders and Pete Buttigieg over Joe Biden. These are the same people who constantly enable Donald Trump by assuring us he would never get too far. These are the same people who feel they make the decisions for the Democratic Party because they have a blog post or popular podcast or they sit on MSNBC and pontificate all day. Ignore these people. They are nothing more than media elite surrender monkeys. Remember, the only person coming to rescue us is ourselves. So, let’s organize.
For decades, I have studied how small groups of common citizens organized into effective teams can have a historic effect. After the 2016 election, small groups started forming using the Indivisible manual, which helped communities do outreach and assist in focusing their opposition. It had a good effect amongst the grassroots but was no more than a name. The Republicans had billionaires donating money to groups like Turning Point USA and Heritage Foundation, while liberals had … Twitter? Even that has gone MAGA Republican as Elon Musk endorsed Trump. Every Democratic grassroots group was left to do whatever they could. There was and still is no central direction.
But I fear years of waiting for direction from a non-existent national leadership have made some indivisible groups weary. At the time of the 2017 Women’s Pussy March, many thought this would become a political powerhouse in America. It immediately fizzled out as individual groups vied against each other for donors, while Republicans set themselves to eliminating a woman’s right to choose. In 2023, many of our most motivated activists set themselves literally on fire for the free Palestine movement and swore to bring down the administration of Joe Biden. As we teeter at the end of American democracy, many activists still demand you boycott the vote or vote for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. They are essentially trying to get you to elect Trump. They don’t realize that their heads will be on the chopping block first. Yes, the leopard will eat your face as well.
So, let me offer you some encouragement and some direction. We need everyone who is concerned to stand up and become a leader.
1) Organize into groups of no more than five People. Let’s call you something from the American Revolution, like The Committee of Five, which drafted the Declaration of Independence.
2) Organize a Weekly Community Action. Indivisible NY-19 (Upstate New York) had an event every Friday called Faso Friday. They met outside the empty office of a lazy republican congressman and represented peacefully and with fun. Take your Committee of Five, give it a cool ass name, and then meet up with flags, signs, and anger. SOMEWHERE YOU CAN BE SEEN. Sounds like MAGA, right? That’s right! Why should we let them steal American public discourse? Show America you are ANGRY.
3) Let's call our actions Freedom Friday: Freedom from Fear. Freedom from Dictatorship, and Freedom from Trump. As many of you Fivers get together, please protest, party, chant, and BE HEARD.
That’s it. That’s the baby step that will be seen and change the dynamic. MAGA thinks Democrats and anti-Trump Republicans are as weak and feeble as they make Joe Biden out to be … they’re wrong. We are the proverbial Sleeping Giant.
It is time to embrace the anger and the hate for those who have brought this disaster upon America. Donald John Trump and his MAGA followers must be defeated resoundingly at the ballot box; They should never be allowed to show their faces in public again without being called out for embracing dictatorship. Trump is the living embodiment of a traitor to our Constitutional Republic. He engineered a Supreme Court that is loyal only to himself with a mission to keep him out of jail and grant him future powers to act as a dictator. This decision is not just unacceptable; it is reprehensible and disgusting.
So, you have a choice of how to express your anger. You can stay home and dread the future or get out and organize voter registration and pizza parties, drive people to the polls, and organize early voting phone banks. We do not want a Blue Tsunami this year; we want a Blue Ocean of votes. As Rev Al Sharpton says, “Are you going to be whining or winning?” I choose to win.
Now get the fuck to work.
No election will curb the Supremes. But let's look at this immunity ruling as a gift to OUR SIDE. With this gift of immunity, President Biden can order Seal Team 6 to arrest and indefinitely detain Trump, his flunkies, and the corrupt Supreme Court Justices and send them all to Guantanamo. The anti-democratic forces invented their own demise, and we should demand Biden use this weapon (we never asked for) in our defense. Indefinite dentention and Presidential immunity makes it possible to restore health to democracy. Without Trump and the Justices' corrupting presence, America has a chance to make laws to restore the rule of law and promote democracy. Let's pressure Biden to use this ghastly ruling against the very people who invented it.
This is a dark time that people need to understand that these folks, these idolaters are not playing games. They’re not joking around. The GOP & the crazy needs to be soundly defeated across the country at every level as best as possible. Or the dark nature of this country will prevail & the horrors of the past will return.