U.S. Constitution First Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Americans need to up their thirst for blood, or maybe their tolerance for consequences.
What is happening with the Trump administration is criminal. Republicans under Trump are ignoring the law down to the state level, Congress, the Supreme Court, and any sense of human decency. It smells like this Constitutional Crisis we keep hearing about.
People with approved asylum, green cards, and even naturalized citizens are being taken into custody, and some are sent to El Salvador for imprisonment. Trump claims that the people who are demanding the return of some of those prisoners are “sick people,” including the Supreme Court, which voted 9-0 for Trump to “facilitate” the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
American jobs are being lost en masse, with foreigner Elon Musk’s Doge ripping apart critical agencies needed by the American people. Americans are losing, and the sycophantic South African is getting more and more of the American people’s money dumped into his pockets.
Trump has also worked to damage voting rights. I mean, he told us he’d have it fixed so good we wouldn’t need to vote again. He’s making good on that.
We’re in trade wars with our allies and escalating one with China, an old society that should and has laughed in the face of our adolescent 250 years.
Why are we putting up with this nonsense from that weird orange man and his equally weird party?
A lack of historical reference is certainly part of the problem. We are a bit self-important when the span of history only includes us in a tiny little blip. We’re very new to this world equation.
America is cheap wine. The good stuff is aged.
People are protesting, but to what end?
What is the demand, and what actions are following up the walking gently in the streets when politicians are unraveling our nation for the benefit of rich oligarchs and Trump’s fragile ego, are allowed to sleep peacefully at night?
Literally, What?
Why do we keep pulling these antics that have no force or meat behind them? We keep trying peace when the other side chooses violence daily.
We have no obligation to be peaceful with these people.
Our constitution guarantees that we have no obligation to be peaceful in the face of tyranny, and in case you need a refresher on what tyranny is, this is tyranny. When our ideas are illegal, this is tyranny. This is authoritarianism without the uniforms, but that doesn’t seem far off. Melania gave us a taste of it in Trump’s first term.
We should be, to put it mildly, fucking shit up.
We’ve gotten soft, America.
And, while we look upon Jan. 6, 2021, as a terrible event, those folks weren’t far off from what this nation needs. We need acts of rebellion that get up close and personal.
We need to let our legislators and elected officials know what a boot to the ass feels like or at least to understand it as a possibility. We need politicians to understand that the skeedaddle that Josh Hawley was doing is the result of ignoring and hurting the people of America. We’ve seen a few skeedaddles at rallies. More of that. Hold politicians’ feet to the fire on all the issues facing this nation.
We need to remember who the fuck we are, or at least what we aspire to be.
Now, before you clutch your pearls and think I’m calling for folks to break into state houses to hurt people, I am not.
Exactly.
The idea that it could happen to them should never be far out of an elected official’s mind because their very existence relies on the politeness and calm of the people who elected them, and it feels like we’re getting a little thin on reasons to stay nice.
Korea has given us a blueprint for a blood-free revolution from the moment Yoon declared martial law until his removal and conviction. They’ve suffered under dictators before. We’re still new to this.
It’s time to stop fooling ourselves into believing that most of these elected officials are working in the service of people. They are not, and they have proven it over and over, in our faces, but we keep making excuses and playing nice. For what? Clearly, nice, polite, reaching across the aisle politics is dead in the water in America, and the folks we might want to reach out to are actively destroying the work of our Constitution with no consequences.
Stop giving them peace. Stop allowing them respite. No justice, No Peace.
When citizens, and those with legal asylum in our nation, are being shipped to a gulag in South America, there should be no peace.
When Medicaid is taken from children and those who need it, there should be no peace
When our elders’ social security, which they worked for, is threatened, there should be no peace.
When voting rights, women’s rights, and LGBTQ+ rights are being snatched, there should be no peace.
America doesn’t work if it’s Republican-only, straight-only, or white-only. That has never worked, anywhere, in the history of the world.
Until this nation lives up to its promise, there should be no peace.
At the end of this administration, Americans need to demand consequences when that time comes. An election isn’t enough. For illegal actions, the result needs to have legal consequences. If Trump wants to bring back a firing squad, then let it serve its purpose for any illegal action by anyone, including those abusing power.
“The jail you planned for me is the one you’re gonna rot in.” —The Color Purple
