Ever since the current authoritarian and increasingly violent MAGA fuelled GOP administration rose to power in America, there has rightly been societal indignation and condemnation across the USA, and from the wider world. Thankfully pushback continues to grow but, until now, any bi-partisan rebuttal has mostly been insignificant, assuming that ever existed in the first place.
Despite all the daily evidence that supports suggestions around exponential growth of challenge, most checks and balances, that once allowed legislators to reign-in outrageous or dangerous behaviours – of any administration – are long gone. Anything that remains is now mostly ineffectual. All those ‘checks’ have intentionally and expediently been suppressed by the regime since the beginning of this 47th presidency in 2025. They have been rendered totally impotent – by fears of consequences for any displays of regime disloyalty – simply put, they have been annihilated. So where does this leave America now? And perhaps even more importantly, where do Americans – and the rest of the world – go from here?
Every new day we are witnessing new incidents and events throughout America, and partly as a consequence the world, that leave most human beings totally aghast and consumed by their inherent outrage. Yet the American regime continues to instruct its people that they should never believe their lying eyes and ears – “it’s all fake news” – which is part of their “Groupthink” promotion strategy. The regime are expectedly refusing to allow any dissent which might challenge or slow their total implementation of their dystopian ideology. And they are doing this by invoking ever increasing levels of fear where necessary throughout the populus.
America is not 1930s Germany, but it does have many similarities and parallels with European history. This all started by proposing federal actions to “protect citizens from violent undocumented criminal immigrants.” Yet we have now seen how quickly this has all morphed into profound displays of bigotry and racism; targeting anyone and everyone from any marginalised minority group within America. Regardless of their citizenship status and especially when they’re not male, white or straight. It’s disgusting by any standards but in today’s America – the so-called “Land of The Free” – we are witnessing a state supported birth of sectarian violence delivered with impunity, the daily suppression of crushed human rights and the sickening ascendence of thuggish and violent white supremacy. These are things not seen since the demise of fascism in Europe, before the moves to combat the KKK in America, and prior to the toppling of Apartheid in South Africa. This is both shameful and frightening for ever so many people, and not just those who are being targeted by the regime.
Most people now, whilst remaining fearful, are also resigned to the fact of a probable reality; we are long past any time for inanely talking about the problems that Americans currently endure. And there is no longer any value to be gained from discourse; with any individual – or regime stooge, promoting, supporting or maintaining any of this hateful and socially harmful ideology.
This is an administration that constantly and consistently refuses to listen to anyone. Let alone ever consider new concerns or opinions from its own people. Even that minority within the MAGA faithful, who are belatedly viewing things differently, are ignored and ostracised by a cabal of sycophantic self-interest topping this administration. Although those individuals might have arrived ‘late to the party’ they shouldn’t be totally eviscerated by the rest of us. They too were victims of the contrived and deceitful ‘brainwashing’, rendering them previously incapable of developing any semblance of their own opinion, until now. As that latter cohort starts to wake and fully-understand all the uncomfortable and nasty impacts of voting this regime, they deserve to be nurtured and supported to develop their new thoughts. Because if they don’t get that support, from their peers, the media and any new government in the future, history will undoubtedly be stuck in a rinse & repeat cycle.
So yes, all the adequate and productive words have been exhausted, and it is increasingly ever more likely that positive action is not only imperative, but will likely ensue, before any more concerns are gutted and eroded beyond all reasonable previous recognition and humanitarian expectations. We have also now reached a point that is almost beyond any meaningful repair. Always assuming that we haven’t fallen fatally from a societal precipice already. And none of these assumptions are political rhetoric or hyperbole.
But I’m not calling for any violent insurrection – as evidenced by the past actions of this regime’s executive – and I’m not suggesting that violence, against any part of that regime, is appropriate, or should even be supported in any way. Far from it. But what I am suggesting is that all current non-violent pushbacks should be loudly applauded and fully supported. By all, and far more vociferously than they often appear to be at this present time. The House of Representatives sitting on Capital Hill, regardless of the clear grip of a Republican majority, and subsequent control of any voting practices, could and should do more. This is no longer the time for partisan loyalty within discourse, or silence. Because the silence, displayed by so many on the political right of Congress in America, has fuelled an inferno of self-interest, which is now consuming almost all humanitarian rights in America, and creating something of a geopolitical Armageddon moment.
If ever there was a need for concerted and robustly undivided bi-partisan response, that time is definitely now. Because what was (perhaps) something once born in (possibly) political differences of the past, is now a frightening shitstorm of monumental proportions. And the vast majority of right-minded people want to escape from it.
If the political and economic leadership (and the people) of America – a once revered and mostly respected nation – can’t unite to remove their carbuncle of narcissism, propped up by a dangerous fascist, power-hungry, and now violent regime of self-interest from the world stage, we’re all fucked… and for a very long time.
As the Governor of California (and many others) are belatedly but increasingly thankfully shouting… For Fuck Sake People, Grow some Spine!
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