| Stop being surprised. | To be surprised by consistent and expected behavior is to be obtuse or in denial. Put yourself in their place and figure out where their beliefs are leading them. |
| Stop being offended. | Offense is the wrong response to being repeatedly and predictably pushed. Prevent the push. Resist the push. Push back. |
| Stop saying they should be ashamed. | They have no shame. |
| Stop asking how they can sleep at night. | Those without conscience sleep better than you do. |
| Stop saying that history will revile them. | History will be revised by them. |
| Stop saying voter turnout is the top priority. | Securing the vote is the top priority. |
| Stop waiting for someone to save you. | Comey was never going to save you. Mueller was never going to save you. Pelosi was never going to save you. Bolton was never going to save you. The intelligence agencies, the Steele dossier, the media, the press, Twitter, and Facebook were never going to save you. Impeachment was never going to save you. They aren’t worried about reelection, so it’s clear the election will not save you. Infrastructure is being stripped bare and will not save you. The courts are stacked and impeding rulings are being disregarded, so the law will not save you. Anger might save you — if it leads to action. Action when you need saving means saving yourself. Saving yourself means staying active to save others. |
| Stop acting like a boxer who will win by sticking to the rules. | Our opponent is no longer there to box. He’s there to get rid of us and own the ring, and rules impede him. He brought a chainsaw. Stop appealing to the referee. Our opponent hired this referee after he forced the ethical one out. And after we’re eliminated our opponent will crown himself Champ for Life. He’ll claim he has no rivals, and no one will ever see any because all potential challengers will be culled and gang-walked out behind the arena and shot in the head and buried in unmarked pits. |
| Stop saying the arc of the moral universe bends toward justice. | They don’t live in a moral universe. They are bending the arc to suit their ends. |
This is who you’re up against. The time for wishing they would act like you is past. The time to reason with minds beyond reason is not only past, it never existed.
It’s time to act — not act like victims. Act up, act out, act now.We think the sound of marching jackboots has receded into history. Our future hinges on our understanding that there was an even earlier time when that sound was not receding but approaching. When entire populations with our same faith in institutions and saviors and the triumph of moral right were trodden into ash and pits and slavery by the inundation of those boots. It’s the sound of history about to march across us, and denial has never silenced it.