I marched in Minneapolis today. I marched with people of color and white people. I marched with people singing in English and Spanish and a few languages I didn't recognize. I marched with disabled people and Native American dancers and Wobblies and a surprising number of dogs. I marched with kids and with elderly people and with everyone in between.
Today is D-Day +0. In 1944 D-Day was the Allied invasion of continental Europe, part of a vast invasion plan that would ultimately see the US, Canadians, English, French, Russians, and many others drive the Fascist Nazi war machine all the way back to Berlin.
In 2017 D-Day is the first day of Fascist rule in the United States of America. We've had a long history of bad leaders in this country, from slave owning founders to Andrew "Prototype Drumpf" Jackson on through Nixon, Bush II Electric Boogaloo, Barack "It's okay if I declare them terrorists" Obama, and now Il Douche.
Things are bad. Lots of people are going to die. Lots of people die under every Presidency as the POTUS decides who has to be killed in the nation of international capitalism and American global hegemony, but that tends to happen overseas or in parts of the US the middle class doesn't visit, so opposition to it is somewhat limited.
Drumpf is different. He's a fascist. He is unable to perform the basic tasks required of the role. He is extremely ill prepared. He is essentially leaving the ship of state rudderless and without a helmsmen. While that might be good for immediate domestic concerns it will pose problems down the line.
Right now we need to organize and take action. Find one of the many, many grass-roots groups in your area and get looped in and hyped up. If you can't find a group that suits your needs form your own. We need to mobilize everyone. This is the greatest threat the United States has ever faced, and unfortunately instead of a transformative threat that would realize a better, more just, more equal, more accepting society it is a nihilistic, destructive threat that will simply add to the burden of misery.
But have hope. Our opponent is just a man, a very old man, and not a terrible clever one. We can beat him and either drive him to resign or impeach him. He is the last gasp of the bad old days and if we weather this and come out on top in 2018 or 2020 we may well see a weather change that will wipe out much of what is awful in America and allow us to sail on to a truly better tomorrow for everyone.
