Regarding the #NoKings protests: Come carrying whatever baggage or aspirations you have. Wearing whatever you want to wear, waving whatever flag you want. Because the turn out is going to be huge, and the Trump administration doesn’t require excuses to blatantly lie about who that crowd consists of or what motivates them. The GOP already called everyone paid activists. They’ll make up any shit. Which is liberating in a way. Come, as you are. As a friend... https://www.rawstory.com/no-kings-trump-spies-walsh/?ref=ActivityPub

When I was very young, I had not read Marx. I was a socialist because ‘feelings’. It ‘felt’ fairer to aim to create and maintain a society that had humanitarian and egalitarian aspirations - something beyond simply perpetuating the law of the capitalist jungle. I, like I suspect many others, thought that the right and left were arguing about moral and economic structures of societal organisation. Then I actually read Marx. 1/

After years of wall-to-wall Trump coverage, the people who know he’s an infantile tyrant already know it. The people who know he surrounds himself with sycophants and quislings already know it. And the one’s who don’t know it - have consciously chosen not to. At some point, an ethical media has to stop and question its methods.

Apropos to this, I just finished reading Tom Hartmann’s: The Last American President. One of the most powerful things he ends with is a reminder that, once an autocracy takes hold, it takes years to get rid of it. (Because, as he rightly points out, it took years to manoeuvre into place). It’s a marathon, not a sprint.

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