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“Strongmen rewrite history to justify their abuses of power and they depend on fear to control their followers.” But… “He does not have unlimited power.” “(America) -has a history of more than 250 years in which power has been systematically dispersed throughout society.” “-so, there is (an) enormous reservoir of resistance and authority that weContinue reading “I See Nazis Coming Out”

It is Sunday morning….and the sadness is not overwhelming like it was Wednesday, when I woke up to the end of America. Profound confusion is more the ground I walk on now. It occurred to me after I woke up that in the weeks leading up to the election, I was building up my excitementContinue reading “Stage Four”

“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.” Albert Einstein. I bargained with my grief and came to terms with it yesterday in a small way.Continue reading “Stage Three”

Maybe this is going to go a little quicker than I thought a couple hours ago. My wife had a talk with me and said many people are crying. I have not been able to bring myself to watch any news, but they know what I know. And now I am thinking about the two-digitContinue reading “Stage Two”

The initial shock is wearing off. I am now entering that first stage of grief….denial. I am fated to watch America die over the next few years. It was obvious to me in the run up to the election if we lost, we would lose everything…. irretrievably. After nearly a quarter of a millennium, theContinue reading “Stage One”

What now? This is the end of America. What is left? They used our freedom to remove freedom. France had the allies to save them…we have nothing. We have destroyed ourselves.

Up at five after about six hours of sleep. Here we go. Not a great feeling about today. I hope it is my old ready crew thing messing with me (when I stood duty as a helicopter aircrewman I would get these bad feelings). Of course it was just my mind playing tricks on me.Continue reading “Election Day 2024”

On his book “The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order by historian Gary Gerstle: 5:56 “The Soviet Union represented an existential threat to the United States”. 6:48 “-and that required (to contain communism) a standing army and quasi-peacetime of a sort that America had never experienced before. And Taft was profoundly uncomfortable with this…heContinue reading “Space and now the Storm”

O’Neill was the true prophet, and Musk is the antichrist.

Some good news: 6 percent of American adults support the use of force to restore Trump to the presidency. 8 percent of American adults support the use of force to prevent Trump from becoming president. 6 percent is a little over 15 million. 8 percent is a little over 20 million. While the right isContinue reading “We Have More People”