The news today is all terrible, again. And that's me comparing it to the local conditions: a large black bear that has killed 5 sheep, and a donkey, right next door - a bear possibly now wounded - roaming in our suburban hamlet. This we will get past, but the country may not survive its bad news: the wanton destruction of all America's strengths, for the sake of making its failings Great Again.
It seems to me that most people in the US believe they can weather this unnatural disaster by hiding in a virtual closet, in the center hall of their poorly-built virtual house, and waiting for the shitstorm to pass. There are, of course, some fools standing out in the flying feces and cheering (I've just seen my first one here in the fediverse, and it's a bit disappointing). Far more are hiding.
And there are some - many, but not enough - raising alarms, trying to secure the storm doors. Lawyers, scientists, researchers, so many other professionals who my heart hurts for, as they watch their life's work tossed to the storm and destroyed. And ordinary people, too, calling attention to the rising tide of excrement while trying to avoid falling in, or being tossed out.
How do we wake people up, the people in the "safe" closet in the flimsy house? For the sake of our children, our grandchildren, the fucking planet, we need to stop this before it's the Antebellum South and Weimar Germany all rolled into one, a confluence engineered by Project 2025 to bring on the much-awaited apocalyptic Rapture.
What we need is the American Black Bear spirit. I hope it's not dead.
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