by a designer and organizer with Refuse Fascism, Philadelphia
America’s history is a narrative of military force. The masters of this narrative would have you believe that instead, it’s a narrative of freedom and hard work. But Donald Trump’s flippant warmongering is consistent with a tradition of large scale violence enacted on foreign soil. There is no way to take this lightly. This hate filled idiot is charging towards nuclear war, putting lives all over the world at risk. He does not care about a single human life on this planet. If your politics are right or left, you should be terrified, because if Trump invites a nuclear pissing contest, blast radius won’t discern politics, fallout and residual nuclear half-life that will remain for hundreds of years, will not ask who you support.
This is not merely a political action, although it is one of the many ways this country’s white rich male ruling class seek out to destroy the lives of thousands. Beyond political lines, this is a concern of the very safety of this planet as we know it. An escalation of violence from both parties will only result in the deaths of millions around the world, but will permanently and irrevocably damage this planet. And there is nothing in the history of the Trump/Pence regime to suggest that they will not escalate the violence. After all this country is founded on large scale violence. This country’s foundations are built out of millions of lost lives, lives ended by the rich white ruling class, who has always seen anybody who does not fit their ideal version of humanity as expendable.
We can not allow ourselves to become cannon fodder. Millions of people in this country believe Trump would never be effective, never accomplish anything … and since the announcement of his candidacy I have been saying that type of permissive junking cannot be allowed. He has already been effective and damaging. And even if he never launches a single missile he is still provoking nuclear level violence, putting lives at risk.
This Regime cannot be allowed to continue, because day by day we see that the disrespect for humanity is increasing. I know there are a lot of people sitting out resistance efforts across the world, and I know many of the people I’m very close to in my day to day are doing the same. But nobody gets to sit this one out. Day by day Trump’s regime creates as road map to the destruction of millions of lives. Whether he is endorsing police brutality, attempting to demonized, deport and ban immigrants and refugees, destroying protections and career paths for LGBTQI people, or inciting nuclear scale violence with North Korea, he has made it clear that his sole purpose is destruction , in all its forms. And if you refuse to join the people of this country in the streets, if you will not resist this regime you will be allowing tremendous atrocities to be committed in this country and across the world.
What will it take to get people into the streets? Sincerely ask yourselves: how many more headlines need to break before you mobilize?
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