It's hitting me really hard that the US could be another Hungary, if not Russia, for the rest of my life.
Being "late-career" I've got less to lose than many, when it comes to facing the consequences of nonviolent resistance, and that is the way.
But I reckon Vietnam-era protest, that I was just barely old enough to join, will pale compared to what's coming.
The American revolutionaries, Gandhi, MLK, Walesa, Mandela, Havel, Sakharov, Yousafzai, Navalny: all in my thoughts tonight.
@judell hopefully booting tesla stock prices might turn out to be a start. Trump is long bankrupt, Musk will suffer a lot if he's no longer the richest man in the world. And certainly tesla Is hugely overpriced and continuously failing to reach self-set targets.
But I think that the problem remains that the GOP needs to find its democratic soul that does not live from nazism. Democrats have to act up to their expectations. A grassroots political movement needs to find representation.
I thought that I was relatively safe from this insanity in Australia, but our opposition coalition is polling to win the election in a matter of weeks.
Their leader seems to think Trump is a reasonable chap and that we should follow his lead on government spending, bureaucracy and identity politics.
The Endarkenment is upon us.
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