Posted on 07/27/2025 7:53:12 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Every day brings more devastation. But daily forms of rebellion can restore our sense of purpose.
The exterminating force of Project 2025 is plowing through the culture, the government and people’s hearts and bodies like a drunk on a violent tear. We wake each morning, holding our breath to bear witness to the new devastation: PBS and NPR defunded, cuts to the fight against human trafficking, Medicaid gone for millions, Ice working to surveil critics, tons of food for the poor ordered burned and wasted.
The momentum of cruelty always feels inevitable. Cruelty is by definition “a callous indifference to or pleasure in causing pain”. For those of us who have suffered physical, political, racial and emotional abuse, it feels like a familiar steamroller of violence. We only have to witness the cries of parents being separated from their children, men screaming out for “libertad” from cages in Everglades detention center (AKA Alligator Alcatraz), non-violent protesters beaten for trying to stop a genocide, to be frozen in that same incapacitating dread and fear.
What is the antidote to this destructive environment of mendacity possessing us now with fear, ennui and self-mutilating rage?
Ash-lee Woodard Henderson, a powerhouse activist and brilliant organizer, told me: “It’s not decided where we go yet. Which is why it feels tense. What we know is that there’s no going back to an old normal because our economic system has failed us and our governmental structure is being destroyed. They’re trying to replace what was with this minority rule of disgustingly wealthy humans dictating what can happen not only in this country, but globally.
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Weak carbonation.
Now you know how I’ve felt for 40+ years suffering, losing jobs to your types, waiting, hoping, praying in anguish for God to help us go BACK GO BIBLICAL VALUES NORMAL. You can not begin to comprehend the Genghis Khan x 5 inside of me.
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