“Drive the money-changers from the seats of the Cabinet and the halls of Congress…and when again we can hold a fair election on real issues, let's vote, and not till then. Is this impossible? Then democracy in America is impossible.” W.E.B. Du Bois

“If nothing is true, then no one can criticize power, because there is no basis upon which to do so. If nothing is true, then all is spectacle. The biggest wallet pays for the most blinding lights.” Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny

“You submit to tyranny when you renounce the difference between what you want to hear and what is actually the case.” Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny

I always wondered what I would do if an asteroid was gonna hit. When Tik Tok went dark, I went out scream singing More than a Feeling with trivia friends. So maybe that’s close to my answer. I can only hope.

It seems quite telling that the people who are calling for bridge building and unification after the election don’t have the tools, plans, skills, or courage to build these bridges, walk across them a few times to make sure they are structurally sound— they expect the bridge to get built by others.

Cont. “…enemies of the people, the nation, the race, the religion; or if they are not enemies (that comes later) they must be an element in the community somehow extrinsic to the common bond…” (Mayer, 1955).

From Milton Mayer’s book They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45: “Ordinary people, and ordinary Germans, cannot be expected to tolerate activities which outrage the ordinary sense of ordinary decency unless the victims are in advance successfully stigmatized as enemies of the people…”