US Senate Capitulation to Fascist Dictatorship is Game Changer...For You!

What does it mean to be a "Political Organizer"? In these times, we need more people to take this up, especially younger people. Does it mean phone calls in a "boiler room" to voters lists to get the vote out? Door to door pamphletting, petitioning for ballot access, fundraising? Well, in normal times, (whatever that means) thats the kind of volunteer work that can be done. But, as of this week, everything changed. We are officially in an Unconstitutional Fascist Dictatorship, in which the US Senate has done the equivalent of what President Hindenburg did when he appointed Hitler Chancellor in 1933, which spelled the end of the Weimar Republic. Trump now has the power to void the election result. Ask yourself, in light of what you saw this week, WHO IS GOING TO STOP HIM? 
This tragedy is accompanied by the growth of mass based Neo Fascist movements here and in Europe, which are ripping apart the Post WWII World order. Hannah Arendt in her book "Eichmann in Jerusalem" warned that a reemergence of Fascism was entirely possible, because in hard economic times, people, even in Democracies, can be swayed by a Neo Fascist rabble rouser to scapegoat and persecute outsiders, the vulnerable, people deemed as sub classes, etc. So, we have the situation now where Trump rode to power with a fear campaign targeting Mexicans, Muslims, Socialists, and his fictional "Deep State", and a big chunk of the brain dead Sports Mob in the American Population ate it up, like the Roman Mobs who cheered the slaughter of Christian's  in the Roman Arenas. It's useful to look at that Roman population in perspective, in that they were kept docile with bread and circus entertainment, gambling, cult religion, bath house orgies, vomitoriums (like our "Wing Bowl"), Bloodsports, etc. 
So, that said, anyone who is serious about solving today's crises is faced with a choice of doing nothing, doing what's easy and makes you feel good, or changing your life around to do what's needed. 
Martha and I organized for 40 years. We educated and put forward policy solutions that could have prevented all of this. But, we also functioned as therapists, because in order to engage and recruit, you need to help people overcome their fears, neurosis, excuses, opposition from friends, family, and give people the strength to defy popular opinion. Thats what I mean when I say you have to change your life around. Who wants to do that? 
Well, we have a challenge, which is to be like those pathetic Roman's, or like the Good Germans who retreated into family life, or escaped reality in the bacchanalia of the "Cabarets" in Weimar Germany, or, we can think for a little bit seriously how we can change our lives around to meet the current threat. It will take nothing less than that.

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