DEFEAT FASCISM: READ REBUKE RESIST

 An acquaintance of mine, formerly a friend, finished a long career recently in the federal government caring for “the least of those among us.”

If that person was still employed, at any moment a 19-year-old thug could walk in, tell them that they were fired, their email was discontinued, and they had only a few minutes to exit the workplace.

The odd thing is the fact that the person is a confirmed MAGAT, dedicated to supporting the dismantling of America government. The only discernable reason is adherence to a set of life-rules set down by anonymous bronze-age scribblers.

Aliens of the future who study the ashes of this planet will shake whatever serves as their heads at findings like this.

DEFEAT FASCISM: READ REBUKE RESIST

 What is bothering me today is this question of America’s enemies. My country had me, along with hundreds of thousands of my peers, fighting them during four of the peak years of my life. Now just who was the enemy at the time for me and the others?

They say it was the Vietnamese.

I don’t think so.

Vietnam was the excuse.

The real enemy was Russia. The two countries were fighting it out by proxy. China was on the sidelines, pitching in and hoping both of the others would lose. Sound familiar?

In my opinion, as one who had a vested interest in the affair:

We, including those whose names are on The Wall, were fighting Russia. Now, after more than 50 years, Russia has won.

Will Trump and Musk scrape the names off The Wall?

Or will they just fire the ones responsible for its care?

Either way, betrayal is a hard pill to swallow. Just my opinion. Share yours if you wish.

DEFEAT FASCISM: READ REBUKE RESIST

 Maybe the question isn’t why 77,302.580 Americans came to believe that Donald Trump and Elon Musk are exemplary beings who should rule the country. Perhaps a more suitable question is: how?

I’m certainly not smart enough to figure it out. There were signs, though. Had I been attentive, I might have noticed. For example:

Knowledge had outrun our ability to reason. We treasure, almost above anything, our cell phones. They developed from science and stole our minds and hearts. They didn’t help most, though, better understand how we evolved from blue algae to minds that created nuclear bombs and the Jupiter Symphony in a brief galactic period of less than five billion years.

It’s as if our minds are like buildings that soar hundreds of stories into the sky but rest on no foundation of bedrock.

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