This morning, President Trump threatened to commit massive genocide in Iran.
A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!
Today we are all tested.
Congress and others in power
You bear greater responsibility than ordinary citizens. Getting this right was your job.
Anything short of active opposition to Trump and all his works from the beginning places you among the disgraced for the rest of your life: no voice, no power, no responsibility.
Anything short of vigorous effort to impeach President Trump before the sun sets means you belong in the dock at The Hague for crimes against humanity.
Citizens
Today I saw someone on social media say:
The only groups you can effectively blame for this are MAGA voters. The independents stupidly moved for economic reasons they thought this creep would fix. They basically did a Transformers unite and shit this horror on the rest of us.
It simply wouldn’t have happened without them.
A lot of minority voters voted for him, too. And I have seen people wishing harm on groups of people because some people in a group did that.
That is also fucked up. They also didn’t singlehandedly vote this man in.
It took groups of people to create this mess we are in. A lot of factors go into presidential election victories and movements(propaganda, voting restrictions, and deliberate ignorance baked into our citizenry).
So, if someone is like THE LEFT IS THE FAULT they can go to hell.
I concur that moral responsibility rests on Trump voters and people in positions of real power. Even the most prominent American leftists have just not had the power to bear meaningful responsibility. And I have repeatedly and publicly allowed for people who refused to vote:
I can respect saying “I just could not bring myself to vote for the lesser evil on this”. I vigorously disagree, but it is legitimate.
I meant it. But my grudging respect ends today.
And I have repeatedly and publicly extended this grace:
The bargain we offer to Trump voters is that we grant that it was an honest mistake if they admit that it was a mistake.
I meant it. But that ends today, too.
The new covenant
If you have not opposed Trump to even the minimal measure of voting at every opportunity for the only electoral candidates who viably contested him, today is your last chance to avoid permanent disgrace.
“Gosh, I made an honest mistake” no longer cuts it.
You must admit today that you got a vital and easy call catastrophically wrong. You must admit that you have no wisdom to offer on any subject until you have rigorously examined & altered your principles to make this error impossible for you in the future, and then demonstrated to the satisfaction of people who opposed Trump that you have gotten your head straight.
If you positively supported Trump with even just a ballot, you bear a moral debt which you have to work off with active effort to prevent another Trump ever threatening the world again.
Anything less is so morally reprehensible and dangerously stupid that anyone who ever credits anything you ever say or entrusts you with even the smallest measure of power or responsibility joins you in the ranks of the disgraced.
If you want anything more than teeth-gritting support for your fundamental rights as a human being, you must devote the rest of your life to vigorously supporting those of us who got it right in our labors to build a better world.