As we change gears after a very upsetting election, escape the good way. Reading the solid stacks that are always dependable. Leaving Substack would not make us wiser or happier. Unify! Blue!
What I wanted to add was that fighting within the law and with civility is sadly a waste of time. Know your enemy. MAGA wants us dead; figuratively and literally. Read the plan! It took Hitler 53 days to dismantle democracy. Trump is using the same plan! I’m not going gently into that good night! Are you?
Armando says, “We will fight. We will fight within the bounds of law and civility. We will, in the words of the greatly missed good and dear man, John Lewis, “Create Good Trouble.”
Diane, I add this--even as I agree with you: As Trump’s inauguration looms, as his threats to create detention camps loom, as prison stocks rise, as he plans to deport thousands from our nation, separating parents from their children looms,
Let us hear Friedrich Gustav Emil Martin Niemöller (14 January 1892 – 6 March 1984), German theologian and Lutheran pastor, whose words appear on the U.S. Holocaust Memorial:
"First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out – because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out – because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out – because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me – and there was no one left to speak for me."
We must speak out to save democracy and condemn inhumanity.
Mary L. Tabor: Niemöller was part of a greater movement with Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Karl Barth and Rudolf Bultmann to form "die bekennende Kirche" ("the Confessing Church") -- in opposition to the National Church that was forming -- the "National Church" was loyal to Hitler and the Third Reich. The Confessing Church countered the Aryan racist cult and confessed the Christianity professed in the Protestant Confessions of Faith from the Reformation, with all -- gentile and Jew -- as One in Christ.
So, Niemöller himself was never silent.
Among the good, village people I first met in 1980, Pfarrer Niemöller ("Pastor Niemöller") was highly honored in the "Evangelische Kirche" ("Protestant Church").
The scariest feature we face: What will be the extent of the deportations and cruelty towards immigrants?!
Make no mistake.
This is happening now.
Florida and Texas have taken cruel and inhumane actions towards immigrants during these times.
Texas in particular has laid barbed wire traps in the Rio Grande which do NOTHING to deter drug smugglers or human-traffickers, but which catch, entangle and drown a mom and her young kids.
This is happening now.
The change will not be a change in kind.
The change will be a change in scale.
I think we need to join and contribute to groups that protect immigrant rights.
What I wanted to add was that fighting within the law and with civility is sadly a waste of time. Know your enemy. MAGA wants us dead; figuratively and literally. Read the plan! It took Hitler 53 days to dismantle democracy. Trump is using the same plan! I’m not going gently into that good night! Are you?
Armando says, “We will fight. We will fight within the bounds of law and civility. We will, in the words of the greatly missed good and dear man, John Lewis, “Create Good Trouble.”
Oh Diane ~ listening to 17 Jean Valjeans sing their hearts out to thunderous applause... what I didn't know I needed this morning. Thank you, friend.
Thanks, Michele—I did too💕
Diane K24: You are generous and a wonderful, wonderful friend.
Like you, I am in the TCM era of movies.
I hope Winnie enjoys, too. Arf, arf!
Diane, I add this--even as I agree with you: As Trump’s inauguration looms, as his threats to create detention camps loom, as prison stocks rise, as he plans to deport thousands from our nation, separating parents from their children looms,
Let us hear Friedrich Gustav Emil Martin Niemöller (14 January 1892 – 6 March 1984), German theologian and Lutheran pastor, whose words appear on the U.S. Holocaust Memorial:
"First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out – because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out – because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out – because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me – and there was no one left to speak for me."
We must speak out to save democracy and condemn inhumanity.
Mary L. Tabor: Niemöller was part of a greater movement with Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Karl Barth and Rudolf Bultmann to form "die bekennende Kirche" ("the Confessing Church") -- in opposition to the National Church that was forming -- the "National Church" was loyal to Hitler and the Third Reich. The Confessing Church countered the Aryan racist cult and confessed the Christianity professed in the Protestant Confessions of Faith from the Reformation, with all -- gentile and Jew -- as One in Christ.
So, Niemöller himself was never silent.
Among the good, village people I first met in 1980, Pfarrer Niemöller ("Pastor Niemöller") was highly honored in the "Evangelische Kirche" ("Protestant Church").
The scariest feature we face: What will be the extent of the deportations and cruelty towards immigrants?!
Make no mistake.
This is happening now.
Florida and Texas have taken cruel and inhumane actions towards immigrants during these times.
Texas in particular has laid barbed wire traps in the Rio Grande which do NOTHING to deter drug smugglers or human-traffickers, but which catch, entangle and drown a mom and her young kids.
This is happening now.
The change will not be a change in kind.
The change will be a change in scale.
I think we need to join and contribute to groups that protect immigrant rights.
I so agree.