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We live in a time that people are more inclined to obey an unlawful executive order than they are to follow a court order 🤦🏾♀️.
Dictators are created due to cruelty, cowardice, & compliance! IF THEIR ASSES will ignore the Supreme Court, we can definitely IGNORE HIM!
“There are lots of moving pieces in the world right now.”
The Grandparent of understatements, Professor.
As is often the case, there is a line in your Letters that drives directly to the heart of things that concern this reader.
Politicians - elected, self-appointed, autocratic – you name the stripe, bring to mind a group of powerful people scrambling to garner support for their vision of the future – some sincerely trying to do good as they see it, others trying to avoid prison or irrelevance, …
Social change tends to work from the ground up, rather than a brain working top down. The scene on the ground may be a populace vulnerable to control by a nefarious brain at the top. In our democratic republic, the brain is us, crafting our messages and reaching out for community to make our voices heard.
We particularly need to make our voices heard to counter the build up of state legislatures poised to enact a legal coup by not certifying the presidential election in 2024 if the traditional winner is a Democrat.
As I said, the “brain” can be collective.
And I agree that local change is often from the ground – up.
But my comment was directed more toward the global perspective where we need action sooner than later. For that to happen, there needs to be push – serious, focused push.
I don’t have the answer, but I expect whatever the answer may be, it is neither simple nor traditional.
I am reminded of the scene in Independence Day (the original) where, following the alien attack, and the mustering of forces to defeat it across national and oppositional boundaries (thinking in particular of the shot with the Russians talking over their device saying "the American's have figured out a plan" along with the one of Israeli and Palestinian forces assembled at a border agreeing to cooperate) and the actor playing the president says, in the middle of his pep talk "Mankind. That has…
Yes, Ally. I think we are close to such a moment. One could say we are there but for the Alien attack element ... Ours is more like a suicide intervention.
Interesting side note: I had just read an article on the dangers of trying to reach out to Extraterrestrials before Earth had all come together on a protocol for speaking with them, about ten minutes before I wrote this comment today.