The Perilous Silence: Why Media Must Sound the Alarm and for Americans to Push Back
by Annette Dion
“Over the weekend, Donald Trump called for the arrest of Jack Smith, the Special Counsel who has indicted him in both the election interference case in Washington, D.C., and the classified documents case in the Southern District of Florida. Trump posted, ‘ARREST DERANGED JACK SMITH. HE IS A CRIMINAL,’ on Truth Social late Friday. Then, at a closed-door retreat for Trump donors over the weekend, he called Smith ‘an evil thug,’ ‘deranged,’ and, as reported by the Washington Post, a “f***ing a**hole.’ Trump said Democrats were ‘running a Gestapo administration.’
All of this is sadly consistent with Trump’s plans for his second term.”
- Joyce Vance, Civil Discourse
With a presidential election six months away, we still are not seeing much pushback. It is frightening enough to bear witness to a regular citizen lacking any semblance of a conscience, having complete and total disregard for laws, attacking our justice system and law enforcement, behaving in such a heinous manner. It makes us not just a little bit afraid to see someone getting away daily with lying and breaking countless laws, without pushback or punishment.
It is beyond scary when this person is being allowed to run in a presidential race to take over our country, promising to destroy every last semblance of our beloved democracy. Again. Only this time with more chance at success on his part.
Need any more proof? Every single time without fail, when Trump opens his little trout-mouth it continuously spews out repeated promises of violence, and furious retribution.
And the media says hardly anything.
The media is very irresponsibly and stupidly continuing to treat this presidential race as if it IS a presidential race. This is, and continues to be absolutely terrifying. When it is left unchecked and not countered, and a widely viewed propaganda network like FOX, along with the even more extreme right-wing extremist run media outlets just stream a continuous stream of dangerous lies that promote this fascist dictator? Well that too is terrifying. This is where the term “terrorist” stems from.
When we speak to other fellow Americans about what is going on and they respond with a glazed, preoccupied look, change the subject and/or shrug it off like it all doesn’t much matter, in a participatory DEMOCRACY, no less, we as individuals risk being left isolated and alone. Not to mention, really scared.
Sometimes it feels to me like I am watching scenes from that old 1950s horror movie “Invasion Of The Body Snatchers”. I wonder if some alien race has come down from outer space and whisked away our fellow Americans; you know, the ones who loved and defended our democracy against all odds and fought unceasingly for our collective human right to live in freedom. It feels those people might have been taken away, replaced with unfeeling, unthinking and mind controlled semi-conscious drones.
When a former POTUS who incited a violent, deadly and planned (let us not forget the January 6th hearings) insurrection when he lost the 2020 election, a monster….I mean, a man, who is running for said office again, is openly promising to round people up into “camps,” and continues attacking the free press for going-on-a-full-decade, calling them the “enemy of the people”, even though the free press REPRESENTS the people, a man who has pounded away at our democracy, who has specific plans to do away with the United States Constitution, i.e. our democracy, refuses to accept any election results that do not put him in charge, attacking our voting systems saying they are “rigged”, and more, well, then
IT IS HIGH TIME FOR THE MEDIA TO PAY ATTENTION. (…. don’tcha think?)
IT IS HIGH TIME FOR THE MEDIA TO REPORT ON THE DANGER. CONTINUOUSLY. WITHOUT CEASING.
When we are in a government BY the people, and the people are NOT pushing back, let’s be honest. When this is the case in a representative, participatory democracy, then that said democracy is in big, big trouble. Our lives are then in danger. (…remember COVID?…)
BUT.
Those people who stop and reflect on the unprecedented times that we live in; those who stop and see what is going on for what it IS; an attempted fascist takeover of our country, those who get involved and fight back, taking consistent action; those who PUSH back, THESE are the people who will save our democracy from this encroaching authoritarian takeover.
“Those people” includes YOU.
YOU are the person who will be able to look back someday and say; “I did that. I helped to stop the rise of fascism in America. I, along with others who refused to let it happen, made absolute ‘democratic history!’ I rose up. And I rose up because it was the RIGHT THING to do.”
And, as Adam Schiff said during one of two impeachment hearings for Donald Trump:
“RIGHT MATTERS”.
Democracy depends on YOU.
Thank YOU for being involved. The children and grandchildren thank you, too.
I look forward to seeing you tonite at our “20-on-Tuesdays” guided meditation for a healed America. While you are here, why not forward this message to a friend?
Each Tuesday at 7p ET, our group meets online for a 20-minute guided meditation for a healed America. I invite you to join us. Email grassrootsofdemocracy@gmail.com to express your interest and to receive the Zoom information.
Annette, you are so right that everything and I mean everything that spews out from his evil mouth is an outright lie. I remember that one time during our PNN meeting awhile back, we discussed that the loser is projecting what he really does feel and do instead of who he is attacking like Jack Smith. So whatever 45 spews out , he is really telling all of us what he is going to do to become a dictator. The maga people must be in a cult because I cannot fathom how they believe this loser really cares one ounce about them. I constantly pray our beloved President Biden and VP Harris will be safe and continue to inspire every American citizen to uphold our constitution.
John M