The Second Tower

It wasn't a fluke.

It wasn't pilot error.

It wasn't instrument failure.

This is what Republicans wanted, and now they have achieved it.

For longer than I'd care to think about we have been warning anyone who would listen that the Republican party was building a monster machine, and that if this went on, it would end in tears and terror. 

The Conservative elite laughed those warnings off as Liberal hysteria and crackpot alarmism until it was far too late.  Now most of the Conservative elite bends the knee to the demons they created, while a few flail around trying to understand what just happened, and a fewer still seem willing to entertain the possibility that the Republican base they helped to create really are a mob or reprogrammable meatbags and completely lost to reason.

The legacy media mocked and ignored those warnings as absurd, or childish or otherwise unserious, or somehow too shrill and strident to be "tonally" acceptable.  They categorically refused to see the danger coming for them with knives out until it was far too late.  Now most of the legacy media bends the knee to the monsters they enabled, while a few stumble about looking for an answer -- any answer -- that doesn't implicate them.

As for me, other than being unutterably sad at the outcome of the election and fearful in a hundred new ways about the future, nothing has fundamentally changed in my estimation of the forces at work in our country.  The Republicans party remains a fascist killdozer being run by hobgoblins and grifters.  The legacy media continues to be a near-comatose husk of its former self, being run by amoral moguls and fascist-friendly cooperators.  

The dangers have escalated and are much more immediate, but other than the fact that no one need bother with figleave hyphenates like "neo-" or "proto-" to describe what is very clearly our  American fascist party, the job remains the same.  Protect the weak and the vulnerable who didn't ask for and do not deserve any of this, support each other and take it one day at a time.  

So whether you are a person of faith or not, whether in victory or defeat, this by  John Wesley remains sound advice.

“Do all the good you can,

By all the means you can,

In all the ways you can,

In all the places you can,

At all the times you can,

To all the people you can,

As long as ever you can.”

Best of luck to us all. 

-- driftglass

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