I went to the #FakeNationalEmergency protest today at the SF Federal Building and was heartened to see so many folks taking the time out of their day to express just how grave of a situation we find ourselves in.
I understand the temptation of just turning off the daily barrage of orange bile (and do so myself most days), as the human mind can only take so much outrage before needing a reprieve. However, it's important to remember that sowing constant chaos is part of the con-man's strategy to deflect from his own crimes and his regime's atrocities, and that exhaustion and complacency of citizens is a feature of the democracy heist, not a bug.
So, I think during key moments of this reign of horror such as this made up "emergency" it is incumbent upon all of us to "un-numb" ourselves and be shocked by just how brazen these attempts at overthrowing democracy really are.
As the woman's sign in the cover photo notes ("Democracy isn't dying in darkness, it's being murdered in broad daylight"), the conspiracy of stealing the election and ensuing cover-ups has been happening in broad daylight, aka on Twitter and whenever else the Russian asset opens his big mouth or meets with his Russian handlers. It's a sinister but savvy strategy to normalize the unthinkable, not too different from the "Big Lie" propaganda technique employed by history's most infamous fascist.
As we're marching toward the inexorable clash between delusion and reality, it behooves those of us who are not fooled (aka the vast majority of Americans and our international allies) by the tin pot dictator to be warned that the increasing frequency of seemingly gratuitous gaslightings of our democratic institutions and safeguards is the inevitable result of the criminal madman's deranged mind that sees only one way out of being held to account for the crimes he's committed: to destroy the constitutional checks and balances enshrined in the American constitution.
PS: And if you want to talk about a real emergency…