The people clinging to this alternate reality are going to be the last to accept what is happening. They are too busy living in what could have been.

Defeating fascism almost always requires outside allies. It will be both. We will lose the civil war, and those of us that are left will have to hope liberation comes.

I had to finish it so now I’m awake, have a headache from crying, and can’t fall asleep even though it’s past my bedtime.