Speak Out For Them
I don’t have a platform. No podcast or social media or even a blog. Just some guy, middle aged white guy who had some privilege and some luck and some weird times and turned them into some middle-class lifestyle.
I’m no one of importance. And I can’t make changes in this world. I want to. I don’t have the power to. I want to make this a society we all live equally in. I want everyone to have a home. To have healthcare. To have food. Water. Electricity. Smart phones and internet.
Nothing too crazy. But everything I mentioned is a huge policy discussion. And when I say discussion, I mean a wall and a moat and an anti-logic machine gun. So nothing gets done. On any of it. Yet it is a simple idea.
Give everyone a home. And a life that isn’t miserable.
Easy. Democrats, who in 2025 are ‘searching for a message’ please, please take that as your slogan. That is a message. That’s something the working class and the middle-class are onboard for. Because we aren’t really middle-class. We are better off than people who are poor, but only by the breath of an angle on a dandelion. The slightest shift in the wind, the merest of changes, the flap of a butterflies wing could make us poor. Most don’t want to risk saying it aloud, but we all know.
Same as we know that some of us are immigrants. Same as we know our parents were. Or grandparents, or great-grandparents, or great-historical ancestry. Immigrants legally here being carted off by ICE in twenty-twenty-five is inanity. There is no cause, due or not, that allows this. This is racism. This is arresting innocent people on the streets. This is fascism.
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Fleeing from war, from terror, from a hell on earth. Only to find yourself caught in a hellish political storm, one that allows you to be yanked off the street, sent to El Salvador, shaved and humiliated, and then put in the cell of a fascist who is being paid to keep you there. You could have been me, may be me, in a few years if I have to flee this country. This is fascism.
Trump is immune. The Supreme Court ruled he is immune for everything he does as President. Do you know what that means? I don’t, really, though I know exactly what it means to him. That he can do whatever he wants. That there are no limits, to walls, no norms, no status quo, no morality, no idea, no control.
Nothing. At all. Is outside of his scope, in his mind.
He will destroy whatever he can to take whatever he can for himself.
He is a monster. He is a villain. And we have to fight no matter what.
— — — — Just in case you’ve never read it all before:
First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me
First They Came — by Pastor Martin Niemöller
