Do we realize & understand & grasp that we are living in a pivotal moment of history?

[MadameButterfly]

65. It is possible that things just have to get bad enough

for enough people to get it. The voters who need to change wont listen to reason. They have to experience the pain.

Things have been going downhill for a long time. Even when Dems won the presidency, the RW paralized efforts for obvious things like gun control and climate change. The days of compromise died with the 70s. We couldn't keep going on that way. Dems could only slow the damage. Republicans took a wrecking ball in every time they assumed power. This is a logical consequence of all that with Putin really running the show.

I hate to imagine the pain that will be required to turn things around but I DO believe they will turn around. Dictators have a way of over-reaching and causing their own demise. I'm not saying I'm ok with the longevity of Putin's reign, but he could have left Ukraine alone, made treaties for their minerals and grains, even worked with the West, but no, he had to re-create the USSR and in so doing tanked Russia's economy. Hitler couldn't fight on one front, he had to fight on two. Trump is dumber than both of them combined. Elon is drunk with power. These types can't help themselves. They overreach.

Think, Trump could have used the presidency to stay free and taken credit for Biden's economy. Elon could have quashed all the investigations against him and left the rest of us alone, and his Tesla empire would still be intact and he'd be richer than he is now. We can, and we WILL destroy Tesla. There aren't enough MAGATs rich enough to keep Tesla afloat. Threaten SS and not buying a Tesla is easy. A French company is about to replace Starlink in Ukraine. And everywhere else in the world after that. Starlink will go the way of Tesla. Elon said cutting expenditures in the US would be "fun." Destroying Elon Musk will be FUN. Let's do it. He is not popular with MAGAs. He isn't what they meant. He will go down. He is "The Man Who Would Be King". They are the French Revolution, prone to arguments amongst themselves. Their necks will roll, one by one (figuratively speaking--but I don't rule out jail). A kid-like actor saying dumb stuff while wielding a chain saw will not have a lasting victory against people losing their SS. I hope it doesn't come to that but if it does, they will fall. Fast.

I don't like to share my religion, generally, but if you don't believe in God, and all the false proclamations made in his/her name, consider possibly that there is energy. Quantum Physics is a thing. A very small number of psychopaths and oligarchs are very weak, metaphysically speaking. There is a wealth of intelligent, compassionate, loving, ambitious, hard-working people who are emanating energy that will prevail. We don't know how this will take form. I often fall into fear because I don't know how, but history can be surprising.

What were the odds of the end of slavery? It required the North to do badly enough that Lincoln had to do the Emancipation Proclamation. If the North had been victorious early, it wouldn't have been required. If Gettysburg and Antietam had not procured Northern victories, there would not have been the credibility Lincoln was waiting for, for the Proclamation. The courageous battle of Fort Wagner was required at catastrophic losses for Black soldiers, and their commander. The Battle of Atlanta happened barely in time to salvage a Lincoln re-election over General McClellan who would have sued for peace (surrender). It took a series of miracles, a lot of suffering, but right prevailed.

I think there is so much we can't predict. Yes, we must strategize and keep fighting. But we must not lose hope. These people we are dealing with are really stupid. Soul-less. Mentally ill. We are love. We are genius. Buy some route we can't predict, we will win.