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Jessica Price @Delafina777
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I'm getting sick of seeing all that "Dr. Ford rescued her child self today" memery. Look, if you're a survivor & you absolutely need to be told that it's going to be OK or you will break, please do what you need to. Also skip the rest of this thread. Everyone else? Let's go.
Dr. Ford certainly did everything she could to rescue her younger self. And we as a society failed her. Because she DIDN'T get believed by the people in charge. She had to relive all of that and it was for nothing.

Unless.
The only way she succeeded there, the only way we didn't FORCE her to fail, is if it ends up being the straw that breaks the camel's back. If it gets people to do direct action, to vote in DROVES, to demand a constitutional amendment to allow senators to be recalled, etc.
If people fucking RIOT and say no to everything the Court tries to do, the Senate tries to do, the White House tries to do.
STOP TELLING YOURSELF IT'S GOING TO BE OKAY.

It is not going to be okay. Scientists just told us we have 10 years to fix climate change or we're utterly fucked as a species. Our economy is fucked. Our politics are fucked. Every system we have is basically fucked.
It is not going to be okay.

No one is coming to rescue you. Jesus isn't going to come back, wave a magic wand, and fix the planet. King Arthur or Gandalf or who the fuck ever isn't leading the cavalry here to stop any of this collapse.
So stop fucking telling yourself it's going to be okay. Because it will only be okay if YOU MAKE IT OKAY. The arc of history DOESN'T bend toward justice on its own. It has to be wrenched into place. Nothing is going to end happily unless you MAKE it do so.
We've seen small victories--when people totally and completely lost our shit as a society, like we did over the family separations. That at least made the administration flinch. But as a society, as media, as public consciousness, we mostly took our win on that issue & sat back.
And of course, they stopped flinching and found ways to do what they wanted. We didn't scream loud enough about family separation, but at least we learned we can make them hesitate.
Your senators? Almost certainly didn't do enough. On any of this stuff. When did we accept that a mere vote against full-on fucking fascism from people we put in power means that they're fulfilling their responsibilities? That's the MINIMUM to not be complicit.
Call your senator. And your representatives. Very few have voted against Trump's policies 100% of the time. Tell them to get active doing every last thing within their power to fight him, or you'll replace them with someone who will. No more free passes for passivity.
Stop waiting for Republicans you know--or theoretical ones--to come around. None of this is going to convince them. Focus on convincing people who don't vote to get active. Focus on convincing people who don't do direct action to get active.
Because there isn't a happy ending waiting for us here.

It. Is. Not. Going. To. Be. Okay.

The only way it's going to be okay is if you--yes, you, and every last one of us who isn't a white male oligarch--forcibly reroute the history being made right now.
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