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In reply to the discussion: Why are Dems so quiet? I'm hearing ZERO response or pushback from them [View all]Silver Gaia
(4,884 posts)but if it were me, I wouldn't be broadcasting anything major right now. Some things are best as traps sprung in secret. I'm just saying I don't think we should expect them to be sharing anything like that right now. In normal times, I might feel differently, but these are not normal times.
There are many on our side who are working on ways to tie things up in legal battles, like you mentioned, and that is good reason to take heart.
And yes, I hear you. THEY tend to put whatever they are planning out there for public consumption, but that is mostly because Trump is a blabbermouth. When it happens, that is good for us, though. We don't need to do the same and give them any more advantage than they already have. IMHO.
Our role as "we, the people" is to not be silent, though. We need to be loud and clear, shoulder to shoulder, a wall of resistance. We must do whatever we can do to be that, and as I see it, we have to be strong. I know how hard that is. I struggle daily. But despair is what they WANT us to feel. Our fear is their joy. I can't, and I won't, give them that.
I keep thinking of these words from Dune:
"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."
I'm not saying you are giving into fear and despair, but some of us are. I just think we need to consider that maybe there won't be a "knight in shining armor" plan rise up to save us, or maybe there will be. We just cant know which it is right now. OUR best plan is to do our best to be ready for either possibility. Resist.