It’s hard to face evil.
But Evil is what we are facing.
It’s hard to accept that someone or an entire group enjoys inflicting pain, has no concern for our very lives. It can be hard to find words to express the danger we’re facing. I’ve been struggling for weeks. Thoughts pinging off one another. Remembering a loved one’s miscarriage. Thankful we live in a state that honors women and science. Frightened for all our children and loved ones. Fighting off old wounds that have been triggered by the dark desire for harm expressed by so many of the GOP.
We’re all heartsore, grieving, frightened, and angry. We are all, at least those of us paying attention, traumatized by the ongoing attacks on our freedoms and basic rights, including the very right to control our own bodies. To live.
Another word for control of another person’s body and “restricted freedom” is slavery.
MSM may not spell it out. We must.
Christo fascists have unleashed “attacks” on our very beings with all the violence that word implies. Those subsumed in their own hubris, their own selfishness, and fear driven lust for power, have deemed us expendable — not worthy of respect, autonomy, or even life.
“The face of 'evil' is always the face of total need.”
― William S. Burroughs
Survivors of violence are especially attuned to violence, no matter how veiled or normalized it may be. Those whose rights had to be fought for know when those basic rights are under systemic attack.
Black Americans, Immigrants, Native Americans, Women and Girls, the Disabled, Jewish Americans, the LGBTQ community, Muslim Americans — many of us have seen the stark horror that has been unfolding coming for years. The GOP does not hesitate to take hostages, including our livelihoods.
There is no pain they will not inflict in order to hold on to power. No body count too high.
Their cruelty and disdain for our lives are a feature, not a bug. That is the reality so many of us have warned about for years.
Now it is here.
In spite of MSM’s continued efforts to disguise the real danger to our democracy and lives,
the veil of “normalcy” has been lifted, the reality we all now face cruel and destructive.
We must be determined to fight back with everything we have.
That’s where we are. That is what we must do. I don’t give a damn if you like Democrats or not. This is not about your favorite politician or party.
We made our voices heard in the historic Blue Wave election of 2018. We will do so again.
This is about our loved ones’ survival. This is about their right to be all that they can be.
This is about your right to be all that you can be.
This is about freedom for all or only the select few.
It’s that fundamental.
Only together can we rise up and defeat the evil we are facing.
Together, we will move mountains.
Together, we will stand against the dark and fight through to the light.