I remember when the first Matrix came out and they had a line about how the computers recreated human society at its peak for the matrix simulation, and it just happened to look like the current year of 1999 and I thought, well, this will feel dated really soon.

Nope! They might've nailed it.

Short yardage…bring out the #PopeMobile…

6/ from the mid-century civil rights leaders, from late century equality leaders. We will have to re-fight their fights, and we cannot fail.

5/ They will be hard to convert, as their basest fears and bigotry were played off of to put them in that position. Strap in, we have a long fight ahead of us, a decades long fight. Proselytize, organize, educate. Learn from the late 19th and early 20th century labor leaders,

4/ We will have to fight for all those things AGAIN. And don’t think just bc MAGA is feeling the sting that they will change their ethos. People who have been swindled and tricked will find any way possible, even if it’s illogical, to convince themselves they weren’t.

3/ Even just replacing those who have been fired, have left, or whose departments have been gutted will take YEARS. They are not waiting around for their jobs back, they have to feed their families. And this doesn’t just get fixed at the ballot box. We can’t vote it all back.

2/ Once we cast off these tyrannical chains, we will face another century rebuilding what we lost (thru apathy, middle class blinders, and willful ignorance), slogging thru this landscape of brainwashed fools who celebrate the destruction of the very means by which they live comfortable lives.

Strap in, we have a long fight ahead of us, a decades long one. Proselytize, organize, educate. Learn from the late 19th and early 20th century labor leaders, from the mid-century civil rights leaders, from late century equality leaders. We will have to re-fight their fight, and we cannot fail

And don’t think just bc they feel the sting that they will change their ethos. People who have been swindled and tricked will find any way possible to convince themselves they weren’t. They will be hard to convert, as their basest fears and bigotry put them in that position.

Just replacing those who have been fired, have left, or whose departments have been eliminated will take YEARS. They aren’t sitting around waiting for their jobs back, they have to feed their families. This doesn’t just get fixed at the ballot box. We will have to fight for all those things AGAIN.

Once we cast off these tyrannical chains, we will face another century rebuilding what we lost (by way of apathy, middle class blinders, and willful ignorance), slogging thru this landscape of brainwashed fools who celebrate the destruction of the very means by which they live comfortable lives.