Our propaganda news channels combined with facebook, twitter and like-minded people getting together has made this mess. It is absolutely a disease of the mind and doctors and psychologists will be studying this for decades. A lot of people we know have fallen victim to this cult. The sad part is listening to people who don't realize they are being played for a fool and became an easy mark. It was not easy for us to get to this point and it won't be easy to get through this, but I think as a society we are strong enough to do it.
When I think about what is happening and what kind of strength we'll need as individuals I refer back to a Civil Rights icon in John Lewis. When you read about what happened to him, not just Bloody Sunday, but the entirety of his experience during the Civil Rights movement it reminds that we can push back against fascism the same way he pushed back against racism and the lack of equal rights. He got tossed in jail so many times and was treated like he was not even a human being. That man had every right to hate America, but he loved this country so much that he spent the last 34 years of his life in Congress trying to make this a better place. We can have that same energy he had. He got in good trouble. We can do that too. I don't want my 6 year old niece and 3 year old nephew to grow up in a country run by hateful, racist white nationalists. Many of you have kids and grandkids now. They don't deserve that either. They deserve a country that is for everyone and not just white people. We gotta just do better. This sucks. There is no way to say otherwise, but we have so many really smart people in this community that can make positive contributions right now to fight back. Stay the course on this and eventually the tide turns and they all get washed away into the dustbin of history.