I want to kick this off with a pithy “Welcome back, flood of horrors!” or “It’s time to buckle up for another bumpy 4 years.”
But we all know these past four years have already been far too bumpy.
The only difference is that now we’ll also be fighting off deportations and loss of medical, education, and climate protections. As a majority of our voting population has chosen the route of fascism and supremacy, many of us won’t make it out of this alive. More climate disasters. Another pandemic. Probably dinosaurs who shoot flames out of their mouths along with the intensification of more McCarthy-style raids and a new world war. Same old, along with new depths only our ancestors could fathom.
Luckily – we’ve been preparing for this. We have the tools of resistance. Democracy and equality is fragile – but so is fascism and white supremacy.
Our opposition is smarter, stronger, and better positioned than they were before. And we are tired.
But we know how to get into formation. We’re better prepared than we were eight years ago, and eight years before that.
Well, the good news is that we no longer have to claw our way past the smoke-screen of a Democrat-led administration. We no longer have to start every initiative by flailing our arms in the air screaming “HEY, PAY ATTENTION! BAD THINGS ARE HAPPENING!”
The past four years’ false claims of ‘protecting innocent children,’ spreading conspiracy theories, and accusations of division are now laid bare. Radically progressive caregivers who have been working tirelessly these past four years are ready to fight.
We have new technology, have built decades of cross-movement solidarity, and many more everyday people understand how to support an mutual aid infrastructure for resistance and survival.
So now we can share what we’ve learned with the new folks about to realize they’ve made a terrible mistake.*
Let’s turn to our ancestors for lessons in survival and resistance, and then turn our shoulders into building the future we want for our kids.
We know how to keep going – even when the horrors turn from a trickle into flood.
*Yeah, no j/k. We will never learn from our mistakes. That’s what scapegoats are for! ::Deep resigned sigh in preparation for the storm to come::
