There’s a video going around about how right-wing media is successful because they offer people easy answers.
I have no problem with the video or what the people in it are saying. I think they’re correct.
You know what else is an easy answer? The easiest answer of all is the one that we so desperately want and need to hear:
“Peaceful Resistance is the way!”
Peaceful Resistance Is Surrender
It’s easy because it involves very little effort. It’s simple things like boycotting specific companies, calling (corrupt) politicians, attending marches, or organizing a national strike that will be a drop in the profit bucket for oligarchs who already have more money than God.
Peaceful resistance is easy because it requires no changes in our typical, day-to-day thinking of “Be kind.” And the “Be kind” way is how I strive to live, too.
But when someone is literally kidnapping your neighbors and sending innocent people to the most horrible prison on earth (that we know of), is saying, “We need to remain peaceful!” really still the kindest thing to do?
Really?
Does that help any of the families who have had their loved ones abducted? If your friends or family members had been stolen, would you want to hear about more peaceful protests?
Or would you want to see someone gearing up like goddamn Delta Force, armed to the teeth, ready to go get them back at any cost?
Unless you genuinely placed your real-life loved ones into that hypothetical scenario, and then really thought it through, you won’t answer the question honestly.
Change of Venue
But that would require letting go of some of our preconceived notions about how the world works. It would require considering the possibility that perhaps our democracy has already fallen, and now, the only hope is to steal it back and restore it.
But these are not easy answers.
I assert that it is foolish to believe that a regime like the Republican Party is willing to allow us to have free and fair elections in the future.
Seriously?!
Do you really think that the same people who are arresting judges and mayors are somehow above rigging elections?
You think the same sociopaths who laugh about putting innocent people into the worst prison on the planet are simply too democratic to even consider tampering with your right to vote?
You think the psycho who sits in the Oval Office, mocking heroes like Zelenskyy, and chuckling at sick jokes with a tyrant like Nayib Bukele, that turd, is going to respect your voting rights?
The one who repeated the Big Lie, over and over, a la Joseph Goebbels and Adolf Hitler… that one?
The one that incited the January 6th riot, and was refusing to leave the White House. That turd?
It Can’t Happen Here
People will say, “That’s ridiculous! Our democracy cannot fail!”
But consider what was recently said by one of the Yale professors who just permanently left the US because of her fears about the rise of fascism here.
She said (paraphrasing) that:
Everyone is saying, ‘Let’s just step back and take a breath. We have guardrails to protect us against these things.’
But we’re like people on the Titanic, insisting that our ship cannot possibly sink. But there’s no such thing as an unsinkable ship.
What Actually Works
Physical force is not only sometimes necessary, it’s FREQUENTLY necessary.
It’s the whole reason we have an Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and National Guard, plus a police force, FBI, CIA, DOD, CSS, DHS, SWAT, NSA, and all the other agencies.
If a person is interested in Successful Resistance, they will look over this diagram and decide where they fit into it.
They will save the image, begin studying something that we, everyday civilized civilians normally pay no attention to, the Art of War.
Because the enemy has already captured the capital, and they have no intention of stopping until they have ground you and I into the dirt.
“But It Doesn’t Make Sense!”
You tell yourself, “But this cannot be! They can’t possibly be that cruel, selfish, and willing to cheat!”
And you believe this precisely because you are a decent person.
But you will always be at the mercy of terrible people until you acknowledge the existence of terrible people.
You must do more than simply admit that they exist. You must admit to yourself that they are everywhere, even right here in the good old USA.
You must accept the harsh reality that they are willing to harm, threaten, imprison, and even kill you in order to get what they want.
Know Thy Enemy
And unless you’re willing to take the gloves off and get your hands dirty, unless you’re willing to spill blood in the defense of your family, community, your nation, your freedoms, and common decency, they WILL prevail.
They are already in the big chair in Washington.
You have to change your entire mindset. If you would defeat evil, then you must learn how evil operates.
And not every example of “fight fire with fire” is an oxymoron, nonsense argument.
Physical force is frequently the ONLY THING that will stop a violent person from harming others.
And physical force is sometimes DEADLY.
Again… But Why?!
Why would they do this?
Because they are hateful and greedy.
And THAT, my friend, is the ONLY easy answer that you’ll get about any of this mess.
Kevin Trent Boswell 