Politics
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The moment is spiraling. Each fascist uptick is becoming more and more of a blur. I think that Andor’s revolutionary thinker Nemik captured it well: “It’s so confusing isn’t it? So much going on, so much to say, and all of it happening so quickly. The pace of oppression outstrips our ability to understand it
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As a teacher, I’m a mandatory reporter. If I have a student facing abuse from a parent at home, I have both a moral and legal obligation to report that in the best interest of the student. Imagine if I said to myself instead, “Well I don’t know if that’s the best way of handling
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The rise of fascism is torture by a thousand cuts. Some so light that they only whiten the skin. Others so deep they scar the soul. Every cut is followed by another, and another, and another. It is pain for the sake of pain. But also to numb. And to collect power. A repetitive abuse
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I hear it a lot these days from friends who are largely checked out. They say they aren’t very politically minded or they they simply favor common sense ideas. To say nothing of the political centrality of common sense envisioned by the likes of Thomas Paine, the whole idea of an apolitical common sense is,
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A couple years ago now, my grandmother died from old age. In her last few years of life, she had ever-worsening dementia. Her memory faded in and out through the months and years until she was a shell of her former self. Today, I think we have a sort of American Dementia. Dementia is a
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The river is many things at once. It is young as it is old. It’s as calm as it is violent. It flows as it dams. It bends around some stones, and it crashes over others. It is shallow and deep. Why do we insist it be one thing when it is many? Any attempt
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I know not everyone can leave a fascist country. Many can, though, and for them the question is fight or flight. In recent weeks, it’s become more of a hot topic. Where some liken the hour to 1933 Nazi Germany as they tell people to make exit plans, others insist that because some can’t leave,
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I keep waiting, and waiting, and waiting for more people to be outraged to action against this fascist Trump regime. At one time a ways back, I was sure that Americans would collectively scoff at the scapegoating of immigrants in our modern age. I was wrong. So many rabidly agreed with Trump, and so many
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In the present moment, the American Left is a disjointed big tent party with cliques turned inward at their own tables. Democratic Party approval has plummeted with its base. The result is that the path forward against the Trump Regime and its hardening brand of fascism is both highly uncoordinated yet impressively diversified. At one
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Cold hardscapes that puddle rains, Thunderous machines we daren’t tame. Outside crashes in. Novel firsts then hellish norms, Shame on us who ne’er brave storms. Inside rushes out. Grotesque statues ‘dorn the streets, Halls of staff those most gilded feats. Outside rushes in. Spending days down at the lake, Evading thoughts we ne’er spake. Inside
Tony Chiado 