It’s a bit of a gloomy day and this is likely a bit of a gloomy post but it is what it is and here we are. You will find no false cheerleading here.
Only honesty. I know some people don’t like that, and by some people I mean most people, but it also seems to be my only setting and dancing around where we are will help exactly none of us.
And I want to help all of us. By “us,” I mean those of us who used our entire will of being trying to prevent what’s to come. If you voted for it, if you support it, this post is not for you.
As the legendary River Song would say, “Spoilers!” Settle in and take it as it comes. You earned it, you worked for it, you chose it. You might as well bask in it.
For the rest of us, I say: do not rely on the institutions to hold. That’s a scary thing, a terrifying thing, but destroying the institutions of our government has been the first priority for republicans. Yes, all republicans, and particularly the ones who are about to seize power in this country in a way most Americans have never seen up close.
Ironically, the immigrants who left other places to come here to escape such tyrannical governments are probably the best-equipped to handle them, but we all know how that’s likely to play out.
I’m not saying this to panic anyone, but to prepare you. These changes are coming, save some incredible, unforeseeable intervention, and if the last go-around taught us anything, those “predictions” of interventions might as well have been tales spun around a campfire under a full night sky.
Get yourself in order. Get your family in order.
All of the institutions we never even think about–Dept. of Education; NTSB; National Weather Service–are at risk. All of the things you think are unshakeable will be shaken. What can you do avoid the falling concrete?
Now I know there are a lot of people tsk tsking gloom and doom. And I’m not telling you to sit and despair, staring moodily out a window, wiping the single tragic tear.
I’m asking you to be proactive, but specifically to be proactive to prepare yourself for the worst. Like a fire drill or a test of the emergency broadcast system. Which also may go.
We have what most people don’t get when there’s a coup: a head start.
I’m seeing a lot of faith that somehow, the torched, bleached bones of our democracy will survive even this. That is something I would like to believe too, that our flag may be tattered but will still bravely wave.
But just as we cannot put all of our faith in the worst of the worst happening in the worst of the worst way, we also cannot put all of our faith into the hope that something will stop it, something will make it better.
I’m asking for practicality and plans, not depression.
Be hopeful, but pragmatic. Be angry, but pragmatic.
Be ready, and pragmatic.
Have a good Wednesday.
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