My little sis called me today. Left a voicemail about TrumpFuckery, and in particular mentioned Ukraine.
I just didn't feel like spending half an hour moaning and pissing about all that, so I wrote her this email:
"The reality is that we’re screwed for at LEAST the next two
years, and that assumes that these fucksticks’ idiot rampage fucks
things up bad enough that even the idiot public gets pissed enough to
vote Democratic. Which is far from a given; it’s just as likely that
there’s a third party nonsense (which means the GOP wins) or they just
don’t vote at all (…so GOP wins…).
The Trumpenscum has it all; all three branches, the press licking
their taint…all we can do is try and delay and go to court - and that’s a
weak reed given the SCOTUS Furious Five - or the streets, and that’s
both risky and dangerous, because Fatso WILL invoke the Insurrection Act
and become a Fuhrer in fact as opposed to in practice.
So everything and everyone we non-scum humans care about - parks, public spaces
in general, social safety nets, modern medicine..? All we will have is
what they don’t want or just don't want to trash because they’re fucking trash
people who are stealing perfectly good oxygen and that's what fucking oxygen-thieves do.
Ukraine? Fuck. If the EU doesn’t step up they’re doomed. Palestine?
Doomed. Taiwan? If Xi is willing to pay off Fatso? Doomed.
I’ll see if I can find the link, but Amanda Marcotte has a piece
interviewing someone who’s deep-dived into the wingnut bible-bangers. (It's here).
The bottom line? It’s a cult, they’re fanatics, and there’s no reaching
them; it’s culture war as ACTUAL war. There’s no going back any more
than there was for the Hitler Youth dying in the streets of Berlin or
the kamikaze taking off from Kyushu in August 1945.
I’m not exaggerating; we cannot “beat” these people using democracy. They see that as race and religious suicide. They must be destroyed…and that means real, actual, no-shit Civil War. And I don’t see “our side” as ready and willing to do that. I don’t blame them! That’s horrendous!
But that’s where we are.
I'm reminded of the passage in Tolkien where Frodo is pissing and
moaning about how fucked it is that this whole “ring” shit has to happen
on HIS watch.
Gandalf replies, no shit, Sherlock, really? Word up Frodo, he says; that’s what EVERYONE in this
situation thinks. It sucks. It just sucks.
But it is what it is and all you and I and
everyone else can do is suck it up.
And so we do.
I'm not saying "Stop fighting". Even if you're doomed to lose, you have to fight. Even if it means you die, if what you're fighting for is worth it, you fight - and die - as hard as you can. Every Nazi you kill in Poland before you die is one Nazi that can't invade France, can't invade Russia, can't defend Normandy or Italy or Berlin.
But that doesn't make the dying any easier.
As we used to say over at Intel Dump:
WASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSF!
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I recently read Tom Rick's history of the Civil Rights movement as a military history. Not a subject I've read in detail before but it was really refreshing, and as with any successful military campaign, had its roots in careful planning, established operational procedures, motivated and trained personnel. They had no illusions that the system was rigged against them, but planned to use national attention to condemn the white supremacist state in the South.
The one positive thing (if it can be called that) by this current regime in exhausting 4 years of copium supplies in less than a month is there now no illusions had sadistic they are, how willing to break every social norm and law. The regime slavishly adores Putin's gangsterism and whilst opponents aren't falling out of high windows, anyone who doubts they will cheat every ruling against them, every election they lose is a chump.
The challenge for the people now is what does a path to victory look like? There's no-one coming to help and nobody to appeal to.
My problem now is that there doesn't seem to be real urgency in the opposition. I went to a meeting the other day and almost all of the people there - old lefties like me - were still chasing whatever their pet projects were; trans people, climate, funding...my point was that until and unless we drive the fucking fascists out? NONE of those things will happen. Eyes on the prize, people! Let's start now, let's go after this fucking Afrikaaner and his IncelSquad, and then work on Fatso and the rest of the MAGAts.
But I don't see it. People were talking about postcards and canvassing. The house is on fire and they're debating the room decor.
That's exactly my observation with the left here too, silo'd into the issue they care about most and unable to collaborate outside of it. The idea of reaching out to speak and influence moderates, centrists even slightly right of centre folks sticks in the throat. And for regime change to succeed you have to do that, you need a mass of people and that inevitably means working with people who don't care about your favourite issues.
This is something the right are very good at - burying their internal greivances for a clear goal.
Postcards and cavassing? Sheesh.
Yep. And their political leadership gets that they're at war; they treat us as the enemy, and live by Stalin's old wartime slogan: "ni shagu nazad" - not one step backward. Meanwhile our Democratic pols still think there's a way to work WITH these people.
I get it; we're Democrats, we believe "government works for people", and to accept that the GOP doesn't, that it wants to wreck government to free the rich and powerful and punish those they hate, is to accept that there IS no government in the sense we've lived with for most of our lives. That the governing paradigm is irrevocably broken. That's hard.
But that's where we are. The GOP must die, or the America of the New Deal, the America of the promises of the American Experiment - equal justice under law - must die. There's no alternative now.
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