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It is OUR government. OUR country. And we are NOT done! [1]

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Date: 2025-02-06

I know we’re frightened. Understandably so. How could we not be? We’re watching an attack on OUR government, OUR laws, OUR democracy, OUR lives, OUR children’s futures — and we feel helpless.

Which is, of course, how they want us to feel. We’re also mad as hell. We should be. We have every damn right to be, because it is our government. Not theirs. Our laws. Not theirs to break. Our democracy. Not theirs to steal. Our children’s futures. Not theirs to destroy.

Then we walk out of the house to go to work, or to the grocery store, and life seems to be going on as usual. The same old familiar patterns on the surface hiding all the chaos and cruelty that lays beneath.

We watch those doing harm to everything that we held sacred — the drug and ego addicted Nazi Nepo Baby and his crew of teenage incels convinced they are the geniuses they are not. The malignant narcissist in the White House, desperate for the love and respect he will never have. He is ever only feared or used. Nothing more. The enablers and toadies. The Cabinet of Incompetence that Trump has selected. The Faux Christians who worship power and would crucify Jesus yet again if he returned. All are on a revenge tour. Nothing less.

Our equality, our competence, revealed their lack of exceptionalism. Their whiteness is merely a lack of color. Their toxic maleness merely a definition dependent on multiple power structures for relevance. Our caring for others reveals their needy selfishness. Our overcoming of adversity reveals their cowardice. They are fundamentally weak. Afraid of reality. Afraid of facing themselves.

And we are stunned at the twistedness of it all and how it came to power.

It can all feel surreal. Leave us struggling to find balance. How could we not be?

But we are far more than we know. We will learn how to navigate these shifting terrifying days. We will learn how to come together and fight back. We have to. There is no choice in that. If we give up, we will lose not only our democracy but ourselves. It won’t be easy. But it is necessary. We have more courage than we know. This time is when we find it, as our ancestors did before us.

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