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What do you say to those who want to sit on the sidelines? [1]
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Date: 2025-04-07
So many people seem to be trapped in despair about the state of America…
Or the destruction of their country has not seemed real to them.
This is what I would say to those people who are waiting for this wave of insanity to roll past and for normalcy to return:
What do the republicans want? Will they be satisfied with passive acquiescence to their demands? THEY WILL NOT. They are too paranoid to accept simple submission.
Your silence will not save you.
You will have to stand in their crowds and shout your allegiance to their narcistic leaders or risk being denounced by a neighbor.
If you know someone who might be here illegally, you will be expected to denounce them and help send innocent immigrants to unknown prisons.
To those who think of escaping abroad, I say, If we lose Democracy in America, it will not long last in the rest of the world.
There’s a famous admiral who says that there is one thing that you can do to motivate yourself: pick one thing positive that you can do EVERY DAY that you know you can accomplish. He picks ‘making your bed’. You know you can do it. It’s positive. And if you get NOTHING done the rest of the day, you have a nice bed to get into at night.
I would just pile on to what that admiral said. Every day think of one small thing you can do to help American get rid of this pestilence; write it down as a list. It doesn’t matter how small it is, a simple email to a friend, a phone call. And then do it. You’ll be surprised how fast that list of accomplishments will grow.
I think this is a good pattern because it embeds a sustainable mindset. You know, when the Civil War started, everyone on both sides thought it would be over in months. Like most wars it turned into a war of attrition. WE ARE IN A WAR OF ATTRITION. We need to be in it for the long haul.
We are going to win. That’s a given. But as we try new ideas, we know that some will fail. We’ll get knocked down. But we won’t let that stop us. Because we expect it. And every time we get knocked down, we’re going to get back up and, as Dan Campbell says, we’re gonna bite off their kneecap and spit it in their face.
What do Democrats want? In the end, we are fighting for each other. And it would be a personal favor to me if you would join me in biting off some republican kneecaps.
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