Take Action Against Tyranny (part 2)
Do something. Keep resisting.
Birthday over - now for a more complete post.
Yesterday I posted:
I was born exactly two weeks before JFK was assassinated.
I was raised with this:
“Ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country.”
JFK inaugural address, January. 20, 1961.
Today I cancelled my Amazon account. Not just Prime – EVERYTHING!
Today, I become a dedicated Bookshop.org supporter.
Do not kowtow to dictators, and do not support billionaires who kowtow to dictators.
Resist.
Over the past few years writing online, I’ve learned one should leave a CTA (Call to Action) with one’s readers.
Here’s mine:
CTA: Do what you can. Resist.
The other side does not want to give you a seat at the table. The other side is not going to think about your needs and desires. The other side mocks you and ridicules you and berates you. From leadership down. From the leader down. Stop being naive that we’ll be able to meet in the middle and work things out. Everyone’s about to lose - the tyrant’s supporters, opponents - everyone. Time to fight.
More than 10 years ago, I quit Facebook, one of the most dangerous and unethical companies there are. I’ve never had an Instagram account.
More than 10 years ago, I quit Twitter. The abomination that was once Twitter reflects the owner’s megalomania and extremism. X him out!
Quit supporting the billionaire cronies.
Don’t just quit The Washington Post, quit Amazon entirely. Don’t just cancel Prime. Quit ALL of it. Wipe the smile off those Amazon trucks.
Get rid of that Tesla.
Quit Facebook and your Insta - nobody *needs* Insta.
You have a choice. You have other options.
Quit being complicit in the destruction of our democracy.
I’m a book lover, and I love(d) my Kindle. No more. I have other options. YOU have other options.
I am now a dedicated Bookshop.org supporter.
There is a foul rapist, fraudulent con artist, thug, and twice-impeached felon and insurrectionist heading to the White House who lied and tied up his criminal legal battles in the courts.
He is a blight on our world.
If you voted for him, you are complicit. If you support him, you are complicit.
This is a tyranny to fight against.
I do not accept this insurrectionist.
The election has exposed deep flaws in our system and in our society. But tyranny, and that autocrat, is not a way to solve those problems.
The fight has to start somewhere. The fight to save our democracy.
The dejection stops here, now, today.
The fight starts here, now, today.
I will fight. I will resist.
Do what you can.
Our world is counting on it.
Resist.
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Thank you for this. What a world! I’m planning to be one voice among many explaining the difference between madness and sanity (who knew this would be necessary? Ah, Robert Heinlein, Cyril Kornbluth, Theodore Sturgeon, et al).
I was in highschool in segregated Panama City, Florida when you were born.
When it came over the PA system that Kennedy was assassinated it felt like we were having an earthquake.
I was a Yankee Queer from the Detroit area whose family moved to Florida when I was 13. In grade school my best friend was black. We were constantly harassed by kids whose parents had moved North for jobs. We had to end our friendship because of those bastards.
So, when Kennedy was assassinated that feeling like an earthquake was the students and perhaps some teachers were cheering, pounding on the walls and stomping their feet. The only 3 in the room were the teacher, my best friend, and I who didn't celebrate.
The celebration went into the night with carloads of cheering bigots and horns blowing and no sign of police anywhere.
I lived in the South for too many years but moving to Atlanta 2 months after graduation helped. Plenty of gay people there and integration seemed to be moving more quickly than in the rest of the South. I still had to be silent in my wishes that the Freedom Riders would succeed.
The United States Government has never followed the lead of the Founding Fathers because they consistently brought their twisted versions of Christianity into office with them thus denying rights to people born in America but not the right color and gender ID rights that should have been automatically taken.
I quietly took my rights by marrying a woman, allowing myself to be drafted into the army, and going to Vietnam. I regret and resent having done any of that because no one bothered to keep our governance separate from religion. I actually know what Jesus is about and believe his Word is a Word to live by. I don't believe in a Virgin birth or miracles; only in the Word of Jesus. For the rest I'm an atheist and that's the only thing I can thank the churches and their hypocrisy for.
So, yes! Fight back against the lying bastards until they're smothered by our resistance.
Thank you for reading.
Richard La France