Facing evil
The pathetic truth is that most Americans couldn’t name their congresswoman or state legislators.
The indifference and ignorance has been a form of decadent luxury in a stable democracy. They masked the decay that creeped forward until the rot became the system, and Trump was president.
Soon perhaps every American will know their “sector chief” — like El Centro Sector Chief Greg Bovino:
A great evil has formed in America. It is going to march in the footsteps of American depravity and shame.
Whether it be the murderous rampage of white racists against black humanity in Tulsa, OK, Washington, DC, or Charleston, SC, internment camps for American citizens, the St. Louis, the massacre and starvation of American Indians, or any other past evil in this country what is forming under the banner of ICE and Homeland Security is exactly the same.
It is an abomination, and it is here.
The abuses are just beginning. They will get worse and worse.
I’d like to share a story with you about a great evil done in the name of the American people that shames us still.
The masked men, thugs all, are no different than the American killers in the story below.
We must move our country enough to see the evil that has been perpetrated by the worst of us.
Dr. King said the moral arc of the universe is long, but that it bends towards justice.
Of course, he is correct and the shining city on the hill lies over the arc. The mountain top he saw at the edge of his martyrdom is out there, but ahead — as far as the eye can see — is the long flat plane where injustice and justice must meet in their perpetual battle.
A terrible malevolence has been let loose. For as far as the eye can see, the right will be engaged against the wrong, and the truth against the lie.
During the months ahead the wrong represented by power will declare its evils the law and the righteous criminals. None of it will have any meaning, and no charge against the right by the wrong will endure in America.
Evil must be confronted when it is discovered — no matter the cost.
Below is such a story:
Where do you think the first ICE massacre will take place on American soil?
Where will the atrocities be rooted forever in the national consciousness?
We all think Trump and the Republicans have gone too far, and are mistakes. They have overplayed a weak hand. The public is not buying what they are selling; their agenda is already doing real harm to the country and the American people; things will get worse; we have 16 months now to relentlessly, loudly, tell this story to the American people; and we need to go offense, operate from strength, and go win the big argument with MAGA, mitigate the damage they are doing and regain as much as power as we possibly can.
The passage of the big ugly gives us an opportunity to go tell this bigger story about this rancid agenda of sabotage, plunder and betrayal. We are no longer limited in our comms and storytelling to the elements of the big ugly. We must now in fact integrate the elements of the big ugly into their broader agenda and attack it on all fronts. They have betrayed us, and we can and must find a better way, together.
ICE has become a serious threat to our liberties and all of us. But I think Trump and the Rs have overplayed a weak hand; they’ve gone too far; the country is rejecting where they are taking us; they keep losing in court and the circle of defiance continues to grow; he is old, impulsive, crazy and making mistakes; his acolytes are bumbling and unserious people; even their big “victory lap” week this has turned into an ongoing shitshow.
The tragedy in Texas has started a national debate about their “more for me, less for all of you” agenda. The return of measles has given us an opportunity to talk about their assault on our health care. Trump’s ongoing tariff fiasco allows us to talk about his core betrayal of working people by raising prices not lowering them. His attempt to create a secret police gives us an opportunity to talk about his authoritarian fantasies and abandonment of the Constitutional order here in American. And people are dying. The economy is slowing. Prices are rising. Our debt is exploding. Masked men are disappearing people into foreign and domestic gulags. Measles has returned. The world is laughing at us.
We on Substack and in particular on any of the political Substack feeds want to think that most Americans are like us: they are aware of what is being done, they are upset or angry, or feel betrayed by the political system.
But that just isn't so.
Most Americans are completely apathetic or support the deportation of illegal migrants.
Most Americans are completely in favor of many aspects of Trump's governing.
Wealthy Americans who supported Democrats have taken their money and are hiding behind their gated communities and couldn't care less about anyone else.
People like Oprah Winfrey.
Democrats in the Senate have completely abandoned their posts and followed Winfrey's lead.
So we are a small Substack tribe that listens to guys like Steve et al to confirm our place in society and to reaffirm the injustices we see going on in the USA.
But Steve is preaching to the converted.
And to be effective, we all need to stop being polite about the atrocities and the unlawfulness of this government and call it out for what it is every day.
We need to get as down and dirty as the MAGA's if we're to be heard or believed.
And as distasteful as that sounds, peaceful assemblies, constant dialogues of coulda, woulda, shouldas, are too late.
So instead of venting on Substack, we need to stop intellectualizing and start organizing before we all end up in concentration camps....which is coming to a town or city near you soon
Today it's illegals, tomorrow it's for how you think, what you believe, and what you say.