I don't care that I've lost friends neighbors or family

[Cirsium]

88. Angry?

Who is talking about anger? We are talking about putting an end to the normalization of the MAGA movement in our everyday lives. I don't feel anger about that myself. I experience sadness, even grief that it has come to this. But I refuse to deny that it has in fact come to this.

You say "that is a lot of people to be angry with." What difference does the number of people make?

Millions of people in the US supported slavery. Was that too many people to "be angry with?"

Millions of people in Europe in the 30's supported fascism. Was that too many people to "be angry with?"

You know who I am angry with? Supposed allies who know better, yet keep enabling the right wing and minimizing the MAGA threat. I am reminded of this passage in Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King's letter from jail in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963.

I must make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers. First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a “more convenient season.” Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.