Dear Sir,
I can't be the only American sitting in my bathrobe at dawn wondering what to do. I don't want to live in a nation more fascist than the United States is now. If Alito gets to the bench the nation will be sufficiently more fascist than I want it to be. The nation's airwaves, political finances, executive, legislative and judicial branches, and large parts of the public, have become more right wing than I am comfortable with.
Many of my family were killed by the Third Reich because they could not or would not leave. They believed that they were unable to stop the juggernaut. That was true. They believed they they could live under the radar and that was false.
I believe trying to live under the radar for lefties or people who post to Daily Kos is probably unrealistic. But I don't know history well enough to know whether it's time to run. (Ireland, Sweden, Norway, Finland, France. . . ) And I don't know whether taking back the Congress is sufficient to halt the progress of fascism, diminish the likelihood of being arrested and disappeared. Organize! I exhort my friends. Run! my grandfather's ghost tells me. So I stare at the sky wondering when and where to go, or whether the juggernaut is unstoppable.
I had a thought. I wonder what very well informed smart people like Dr. Chomsky would say. So I thought I'd put it out there.