I am not sure people realize the weight of what Trump said. He wants to make it ILLEGAL to be antifascist. Which ultimately means: you will HAVE to adhere to fascism BY LAW. & yes, this is also a push towards civil war / secession of states.
& all that he + GOP are doing is trying to instigate for reasons that will allow that. If you are from or lived in any of the dictatorial regimes you know how this happens. You know how they exploit chaos to grab the power. None of this is surprising. It’s playbook strategy.
The most vulnerable people are being baited into a trap — protests & organizations are being infiltrated — crimes are being committed by perpetrators who will conveniently disappear so that the entire movement could be blamed. Disinformation campaign on steroids.
& all of this is happening not even in the shadow but in the limelight of the pandemic. Resulting deaths are not collateral damage — but one of the strategic goals. Holding the nation’s citizens & the world hostage fo fear IS the purpose. There was no intention to resolve this.
There was only the intention to make it worse, much, much worse. Drive people towards despair — death, illness, injury, poverty, imprisonment of the loved ones — & then use that resulting chaos. This is the long fight. It won’t be won without a strategy.
Every mistake will be exploited & used to push us towards the brink of national, then international, then global conflicts. Pandemic + Biosphere*Climate Collapse + Collapse of major nation states is rendering the planet into a tinderbox. None of this is ‘other people’s’ problem.
It’s you me us yes all of us in this together. There is no ‘normal’ to go back to, never has been. The very foundation of ‘normal’ has been brute, vile exploitation: of people & of this planet. There’s no surprise in what we are living — the lies of the normal is what led us here
There are two futures available to us & no it’s not about left or right. It’s about continuing destruction or fully engaging in the regeneration. Sustainability has always been a joke - there’s no way to sustain exploitational systems & hope for anything else but collapse.
We do know what will take for that destructive future to come: just more of the same with refreshed makeup — tho they might not even bother & might just wear those armbands instead. Y’all seem to forget that many of those in power would rather see the world burn than change.
Repeat after me: it is very hard for Those In Power to see a future where they are obsolete & possibly even more so to see a future in which their very core Belief Systems & Value Constructs are obsolete. Understand that. Plan accordingly.
Ok so what it will take for regenerative futures? A LOT. All odds are against us. But that is the only future where all that we love doesn’t combust so we must try. & by trying I really mean directing all of our energies, talents, resources towards it.
But I want to talk about a point that I feel a lot keep overlooking. Regenerative, equitable future will first require us to reckon with the past. Really untangle the myths that got us here. Really learn the histories that were erased. Really see beyond the story of the colonizer
Regenerative, equitable future will really require us to reckon with how we all partook in the mythologies of violence &/or how we were used as its pawns. & only once we have that new narrative we will be able to fully harness the power that we have to transform.
Without that, without a much deeper contextual understanding of history & ecosystems, we will continue being divided & swayed by the misinformation barrage. The biggest mistake that superhero movies taught us is that small group of people can change the world. It’s a lie.
Movements need leaders, & our collective imagination needs heroes, YES. But without a collective HOPE that leads to collective WORK — that leads to collective CHANGE — & by collective I mean collective on a civilizational scale — we will ALL remain at reach to madmen’s folly.
We have so little time & yet this will be such a long fight. Think how best you can contribute to this with ALL that you do & how you can keep your spirit strong through this because the attempts to subvert all we are doing will take a toll harder than we can yet reckon.
Also: this book is such a guiding light. 
Also, this was exactly how they used to go about any dissenting voices in the Soviet Union. Anyone could be labeled anti-communist. & what happened when you were labeled anti-communist? Prison or psychiatric ward. Look up: ‘Enemy of the people’
To make it easier for you: Stalin originated the concept ‘enemy of the people’. The term made it unnecessary to prove actual guilt & made possible the use of the cruelest repression violating all legality against anyone who in any way disagreed w Stalin
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