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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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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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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The story of Sparta’s 300 is one of the Western World’s most famous histories. It speaks to courage and camaraderie, duty and execution. But have you heard of Gli Arditi del Popolo (The People’s Braves)? During WWI, Italy was bogged down in brutal trench warfare and sought a way to change the tempo of the
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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
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Like Milton Mayer wrote about the Germans under Nazism, we, too, will think we are free. The foundational concept etched into our collective ethos. Never to be the conquered, always to be the liberator. It should be a strength, the pride in our commitment to ideals of freedom. But it will become a prison as
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For all those that said, unequivocally, that they would have resisted the oppressor during American Slavery or Nazi Germany, and this is a large camp, find your conscience now.
Tony Chiado 