Woke

What woke me up? I was in the military and my shop supervisor happened to be a democrat. This was the early 90’s and few people in the enlisted ranks were political in any way. This was changing though. I was skeptical about the whole political thing and considered it a waste of time until I was in another shop for a couple months… where they played Rush Limbaugh loud all day long. My coworkers reciting Rush’s talking points made me a democratic for life. This and other learning experiences and events eventually led me to a revelation: being political is the primary feature of actually being an American. How can anyone claim to be a citizen if they do not exercise the most basic duty of a citizen?

We the People ARE the government and the country.

We are now apparently deciding to end the Republic, to throw away our representative democracy and become an Oligarchy, a Plutocracy. And under Trump it will be a Kleptocracy. All these terms mean something and the primary tactic of the fascists trying to end America is to confuse and complicate these concepts. Fascists calling anti-fascists fascists as “schizo-fascism”, “flooding the zone”, and inundating all channels with “the firehose of falsehood.”

Destroy the truth, stack the courts, terrorize into submission. They are eating the pets.

Trumpism is NOT democracy.