There is a point where a country either wakes up or sleepwalks straight off a cliff. People keep acting like this is just another news cycle, another round of political noise,or another thing to scroll past on the way to cat videos and dinner plans. But this isn't background static. This is the fire alarm blaring at full volume while half the country pretends it's a ringtone. We're living inside an emergency, and the refusal to name it is part of the emergency.
Because this is not about one moment, one headline, or one outrageous quote. It's an accumulation, a pattern, the relentless grinding erosion of guardrails and basic expectations of leadership. Every time something crosses a line, the line gets redrawn a little further out, and people shrug a little harder, and the whole thing becomes a little more normal and accepted...
That's the real danger. Not the individual acts, but the way repetition numbs people until they can't even tell what's unacceptable anymore. You don't lose a democracy in a single blow. You lose it in a series of "Well I guess that is just how things are now" moments.And the cost of doing nothing is NOT theoretical. It isn't abstract. It's not something future historians will debate in a classroom. It's happening in real time, in real lives, and in real communities. Every day that passes without accountability signals that power can be abused without consequence. Every shrug, every "I'm tired of politics", every "Both sides suck", and every "It won't affect me" is another brick pulled out of the foundation.
Inaction is not neutral. Inaction is a choice with consequences that will outlive all of us.
The most dangerous myth in American life right now is the idea that it will work itself out. That the system will magically self correct. That someone else will step in. That the institutions will hold because they always have. That's the lullaby people sing to themselves when they do not want to face the truth. But institutions don't hold all by themselves. They hold because people defend them. They hold because people refuse to let them be trampled. They hold because citizens decide that enough is enough and demand accountability instead of waiting for a miracle to descend from the sky and fix everything.
So here it is, stripped of euphemism and politeness. If you believe in accountability, if you believe in the rule of law, if you believe that power should not be a shield against consequences, then impeachment is not some radical idea. It's the mechanism the Constitution gives us when a leader crosses lines that cannot be uncrossed. It's the tool you use when the house is on fire and the person holding the matches is still standing in the doorway splashing gasoline all over the damn place.
Wake up. Speak up. Stop pretending this is fine. Stop acting like it's normal. Stop waiting for someone else to do the thing you know needs to be done.
Impeachment is not about vengeance. It's about drawing a line in the sand and saying this far, no further. It's about refusing to let complacency become complicity. It's about remembering that a democracy only survives if the people inside it refuse to sleep through its destruction.
If you want a country worth handing to the next generation, the time to demand accountability is not later. It is now. Demand your congress critters impeach, and demand that your senators convict. Accept nothing less. Tell them: If they do not stand on the right side in this mess and impeach and convict this orange menace, you will donate to and campaign for the people running against them in the primaries and the general elections. Let them know that as your employees, you expect them to work for YOU and care about the conditions in this country, which Trump is working very hard to make as bad as he can.
Vote, campaign, march, protest, write letters to the people who are supposed to represent YOU. Put bumper stickers on your car. Wear tee-shirts with the message you believe needs to be heard. Get the word out. Do not be silent. Do not comply in advance.
Not getting involved is not neutrality. It is surrender. When people stay silent in moments of crisis, their silence becomes part of the machinery that allows the crisis to continue. When you refuse to act, you are not stepping out of the fight. You are stepping onto the side of whoever benefits from your inaction. History has never been kind to the people who watched from the sidelines and told themselves it was not their problem.
History is full of people who stayed silent and lived to regret it. Ask the Germans how that worked for them.
The only words that man ever spoke that are worth quoting were when he was not actually shot in that false flag operation that made him seem invulnerable:
FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!
Fight the fucking power.
Yeah, I said it.
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