Good Morning nazi America!  Of course none of this is a surprise, but it’s still a rude awakening every morning.  We saw this coming, but it’s like watching a relentless, unstoppable train wreck.  All you can do is stand there numbly and be traumatized.  Which apparently is what they want–shock and awe.  Be in awe of their führer-like power and cave to their dominance.  Become a helpless cog in their fascist machine.

I can see it working on me.   The five stages of WTF, as it were.  Dread, hopelessness, demoralization, anger, and resistance, not necessarily in that order.  Insert whatever reactions you’re experiencing.  To give in to giving up is to be complicit and let them win.  Resistance is the scary, logical conclusion.  If the outrage can lead you to risking opposition in whatever form, then they lose.

Having said this, I realize that our siblings of color have been enduring and fighting this war for centuries, while entitled, privileged whites suddenly wake up out of their complacency every so often in moments of history like this in shock and outrage.  We could stand to learn some lessons out of their playbook right now.  Maybe this will be the crisis that unites us to fight this obscenity and restore our country to sanity.

I’m just putting this humble opinion out there, in case someone needs to hear it.  I’m a coward myself, easier to be if they’re coming for “those other people”, not for you; but in this case they’ll be gunning for pretty much all of us who don’t knuckle under to their fascist agenda, or who dare to question or disobey their unlawful orders.  If you think this is just being overly hysterical, just watch and wait.  You will get a rude awakening, sooner or later.

In the meantime, I continue to propagate and gaze at plants for sanity and staying calm.  They never disappoint.