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Which right or freedom will you miss the most? [1]
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Date: 2025-09-20
Someone today commented “Trump is destroying America are his voters starting to see it?”, I sat with it for a bit, because it felt wrong and then I realized no Trump isn’t destroying the US, trump is revealing the US.
Trump has blown open every crack in the system and all those institutions, businesses, etc… have rushed through those holes with such eagerness and glee one wonders if they ever truly believed in democracy, let alone freedoms and rights.
Trump may be a bumbling fool, but those in his wake are not and they are deliberately pushing him towards more and more destructive actions against a democracy which has stood in the way of their greed for far too long but they never had the guts to challenge. Now they have a patsy. It’s easy to play Trump, unfortunately it has been proven it is also easy to play the majority of US citizens.
Because the sad truth is, a lot of US citizens were also laying in wait for someone, anyone, to blast this democracy to hell, so they may have the country they have been led to believe they want. A white Christian country, where the reins of power remain in the hands of the white majority.
It seems that far more US citizens are will to be controlled if it means that diversity, equity and inclusion are thrown out the door and their path is once more cleared for ascending the ladder whether they themselves are qualified or not. I call that kind of US Citizens White supremacists in the closet.
There are not many ways to overthrow a fascist government, there’s coups, military or otherwise, invasion by another country or the rise of the citizenry, and whatever form the latter takes it one thing it cannot be is passive, without impact, without disruption it will not work.
Our military heads have been replaced so there’s no help coming from there, other countries are cutting ties with us, the minority in congress is a minority and thus lacks any real power to do anything effective, the 2026 elections are too far away to be counted on, that would leave the citizenry; and you have the citizenry that wants the fascism, the ones that don’t mind it, the ones that pretend they mind but don’t, the ones that are scared to lose their incomes, and the ones that would do something but don’t know what to do.
Thus, my question; which right or freedom will you miss the most? Because when the fear of losing your job is greater than the fear of losing your rights, the latter is just a heartbeat away. Democracy has already died, we just forgot the funeral.
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Muriel Vieux – September 20th, 2025 – ©All rights reserved
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