Not Afraid

So There

It is easy, perhaps realistic, to despair when facing immediate extinction. It’s a little tougher, but also native, to embrace survival options. No matter how silly. Or immediately low yield mathematically.

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On the promised Day One of shock and awe, the 47^th president of the United States signed into law about 100 executive orders of a clearly distasteful nature to those of We the People who managed to lose Election 2025. These executive orders were beyond callous, cruel, disruptive, and dispiriting. They were offensive on their face and dictatorial in detail.

Pundits and thought leaders for notions of resistance to Project 2025 are a virtual tsunami on every available platform for public comment and opinion.

I speak only for myself when I say— “Enough, already!!!”

Stop being thoughtful.

Embrace the notion of chutzpah. Be outrageous.

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I’m not suggesting assassination of a person. I am suggesting that shooting a bad idea dead in public would be a refreshing change in the national dialog.

And, what would it take to cause that transformative underdog moment? A weary, righteous hero. A happy executioner of resistance to self-serving power.

Donald John Trump is fond of people he judges to have the appearance that Hollywood would put forward out of Central Casting. Images. Not substance.

In this series of Substack articles, I previously have put forward the importance of independent voices in film (Hooray for Hollywood) and political cartooning (Long Live Laughter). These opinions and attitudes reach into the subconscious of mainstream America. It is vital to protect their rights under the First and Fourteenth amendments.

Oh, I’ll keep bleating about trends and practices I find dangerous and disturbing. Like the shadow court of the Supreme Court. Or Trump’s apparent ignorance or indifference to the alphabet alignments of avowed enemies of our economic hegemony.

I’m just an old rebel who would like for thought leaders of the current resistance to honor their elders. Progress has been made. Black lives matter and many minds of that color now enjoy positions of influence. Yellow, brown, and white lives matter. Thanks to civil rights and social welfare nets put in place in the last 80 years, the national GDP is a testament to the present good health of the American Dream.

Strategies and efforts to divert, drain, and reassign income from the lower 99%, to the upper 1%, of American households just really irritate me. It’s not fair. It’s not right. And, ultimately, it’s not even helpful.

And, you?

Are you ready to write a song of resistance easy to remember?

Or pen a poem that lifts the heart and steadies the soul?

Or paint a picture that inspires legal resistance to tyranny?

Even if the world never sees or recognizes your product, because you have paused to consider and taken the effort to frame a comment, you will be a stronger, clearer voice in your daily interactions with the inadvertently misled and willfully ignorant persons in your circles of interaction.

Like the sneakers ad beseechs you—Just Do It.

Fight for right. Every day in every legal way.

Resist Project 2025.

Heads up.

Hearts strong.

Minds clear.

Make an effort to prevail.

Chutzpah, humor, and empathy encouraged.