Fascist Fantasies Will Fail: Why We’re United and Ready to Defeat MAGA’s Destructive Agenda
by Annette Dion
It’s not going to work this time.
The Hitler-esque and violence-inciting screeds, the hysteria, the abhorrent and breathtakingly disgusting lies, the out-and-out deliberate defiance of the ninth of the ten commandments in the Bible “bearing false witness against one’s neighbors,” while all the while proclaiming to be the only real “Christians”. The gross hypocrisy, the insane gaslighting, the utter exhaustion and feeling of exasperation we all have had for the past 9 years in trepidation, in trauma, in constant anticipation of ; “what are they going to do/say next?” As they continue to be led by the nose by their ugly and revolting ringmaster, mob boss Trump, we know full well what MAGAs heinous and horrible plans are.
It’s not going to work.
Winston Churchill is said to have declared “Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it.” Which is the number one reason that fascist MAGA is going after the history books. This is why, also, it’s not going to work. Because it’s not like nobody here on the planet has learned it already. It’s not as if there zero, still-alive human beings who are actual survivors of Hitler’s WWII greatest crimes ever committed against humanity; the mass maiming and murdering of an entire race of people. No, you cannot gaslight that. It is has been tragically etched into our collective soul. It has been passed down to us. It resides in our humanity’s consciousness, whether we lived it, in actual reality, or not.
It’s not like nobody here in the United States has grandparents, great-grandparents, great aunts and uncles and other family members and friends who lived to tell the story of those very dark days in the world. It’s not like we have mass amnesia. A crazed and paranoid, murdering fascist dictator showed the world what absolute horror his deranged and sociopathic mind, able to hypnotize a mass population, was capable of. The Holocaust deniers can deny all they want. It doesn’t wash away the most abhorrent of abhorrent sins in our history, committed by one very dangerous man unleashed on the world in the darkest days of the 1940s. It just doesn’t.
We are not stupid. And there are way, way more of us than their fascism-driven crowds. Presently they have lost their ground game. It kind of happened when Joe Biden was persuaded to step to the side and let a younger, experienced, very sharp, former prosecutor, highly capable Vice Presidential female step into his place in the 2024 Presidential race.
Joe Biden stoically recognized that the stakes had ratcheted up to be too high, the job too increasingly demanding, the mainstream media, largely complicit, too unrelenting for him to continue with his campaign. He was tired. They just kept bashing. We were sad, but we also responded.
And what happened next? The keepers of democracy, (that’s all of us) upped our game. “Thank you, Joe!” the giant crowds chanted. Indeed.
Thank you, Joe. WE unite. WE take it from here.
And now, we see it. The bloviating MAGA will be, and is currently, stunned by what is coming at them from a rapidly growing, informed, pro-active, not to mention, significantly angry public. We are already seeing MAGA in its blubbering idiocy, the complete and utter incompetence and unpreparedness on full display in response. Every time they appear on those ridiculous news media interviews we watch them appearing more and more stupid. They dig the holes deeper, making it increasingly harder for anyone to miss. Trump reads the crazy and maliciously dark “snake story”. He tells us straight out, whether it is his conscious intention or not, that the only way to sink ourselves, once again, is if we let him in. Then he will bite. He does it over and over again.
We have heard so many times now that you could complete the sentence on your own, “when they tell you who they are…” Thanks for the guiding and uncannily timely wisdom, Maya Angelou.
They have demonstrated clearly their complete and “heading-for-disaster” hubris; the unearned and undeserved posturing of “we-get-to-do-whatever-we-want” as they steal and squander the tax dollars of their constituents in their out and out prolonged refusal to do their jobs. That is called “stealing.”
They are breathtakingly stupid. But, WE are not.
WE-the-people are furious. And that has resulted in our being more engaged and more committed than an American populace has arguably ever been before.
Make no mistake. There are way, way more of us (and growing), than them.
We are, together and right now, fully immersed in our brilliant strategy to call them out and to shut it down. We are collectively putting a real arrest to this madness in the coming days.
For “WE are NOT going back.”
It’s appropriate. Not only for the reason that we do not intend, not by any stretch of the imagination, to cast our vote for the return of the Trump years; the time in our history when he set up “phase one” of a fascistic takeover, spending four years in cahoots with Putin and Orban, dismantling our democracy. “We are NOT going back” is a campaign statement by the Harris/Walz ticket that also proclaims that we, as a human civilization are evolving past the dark times of murdering dictators so beleaguered by their own misery that they deal with by projecting it lethally onto entire societies. We have grown. We have learned. If anyone is waxing all pessimist and cynical about this, in my view that is strictly out of habit, not reality.
They will NOT win. LOVE wins.
Anybody who has ever experienced hardship and tragedy in their lives is fully aware of how hard the process of healing can be. Unless we have lived our lives in a cave or live complete unconscious and unaware, we ALL know it is never, ever a “walk in the park.”
And we also know that the only way to healing is to go through the pain, the wounded-ness. The only way to heal our collective darkness is to go through the never easy awakening process. Yes, it is painful. In fact, significant, major expansion and growth always is.
The snake and the snake’s offspring are right in front of us. WE know them all too well. They just keep on doing their vitriolic and hateful thing and telling us the further horror they intend to inflict on us. They have succeeded in getting a start on it already.
Not so fast.
We are NOT going back.
We are UNITED. We are DETERMINED. Not going back. Just watch us.
Let’s roll.
I invite you to join us at our Grassroots Of Democracy “20-on-Tuesdays” guided meditation for a healed America. Email grassrootsofdemocracy@gmail.com to express your interest and to receive the Zoom information.
And while you are here, why not forward this invitation to a friend?
I wonder how long it will take us to recover from years of Trump. Vote Blue for Democracy!