A Revolutionary Desire, A Crumbling Empire
Well, it’s been a hell of a time in terms of world news and developments over the past months. It takes a lot of effort to have the privilege I have, try to maintain some semblance of my own reality and truth for myself and those I counsel, while also being terribly at risk and in a good place in terms of work, life, and book balance.
Honestly, what I want to do is use my platform—itty bitty as it is—to draw attention to those who need more help than I do. While I do need help in terms of drowning under a mountain of debt, continuing to accrue more because I am trying to treat the cause of my medical issues and get a stupid mouthpiece that moves my jaw several millimeters forward so I can freaking breathe at night, and write and sell books as my side hustle, I know others have it so much worse.
My heart is breaking for the people I see on my feed, begging and pleading for likes and shares to get some semblance of money coming to them so they can try to buy food or water. I have the privilege to hit the buttons and scroll to the next video.
Sometimes the next video is funny. Sometimes it’s book advertisements. Sometimes I share, like, comment. Sometimes I scroll by without a backward glance or thought. I’m sure others do the same to me.
Sometimes it’s more fuckery from the current regime occupying the Oval Office. Illegally, I think. Lots of stories and research are being buried, which makes it hard to trust the news we are getting. No matter where it’s coming from.
We’ve been conditioned to forget each other's humanity. Each other's dignity. It’s being eroded from all of us by a minority of strong-voiced, weak-minded, cruel-hearted individuals who are so insecure in their power they’re willing to put other humans like them in camps to secure it.
It's not so much a progressive vs. conservative thing, nor is it a Democrat vs. Republican thing. Republicans have accomplished a lot under the current chaotic, narcissistic, and literally-written-down-in-a-play-by-play-format plan (Project 2025). They’re only going to accomplish more if we don’t stop them. If WE don’t stop them. Not Democrats, or the military, or the FBI or CIA. Not Gavin Newsom, or Kamala Harris, or even Zorhan Mamdani (who, by the way, is THREE YEARS younger than me! WTF.)
I encourage everyone to follow up on their own (and vet as you see fit) the General Strike US website, mission, and goals at https://generalstrikeus.com/.
The goal there is to gain 11 million people to commit to a general strike. We only need 3.5% of the current population of the US (about 11 million people) to commit—COMMIT—to a general strike. This has been shown time and again to destabilize harmful regimes and bring about real change.
By all means, do the No Kings protests. Speak with your representatives, voteand be ready for alternative plans of action.
As you can tell, I’m done acting like this hostile government takeover is anything else. I’m done pretending we don’t need real action, meaningful change. We are powerful when we come together to stand in the face of tyranny. We are currently disorganized, fragmented, easy to keep down.
Organizing under one banner with multiple focus areas for those who are continually left out is the best chance we have to stop this from going where we can all see it going. We have to rise up, resist, and defy those who would use our fear against us.
Some people believe in the power of manifesting, karma, or (at the very least) natural consequences. We’re experiencing something along those lines now. All because of complacency. I was complacent, too. I thought things would get better under the previous administration. So I relaxed.
I wish we could relax right now. But there is too much to do for us to collectively resign ourselves to a fate we don’t want, especially when we are actually capable of changing said fate.
Gather your strength. Gather your resources. And be prepared to do the hard things, make the hard choices. I am willing to do my part to make sure fascism is a thing of the past for our future generations. We can stop it, here and now. We CAN.
It’s hard to live in our current world. But we can do hard things. So, live. Really, truly live.
That’s how we win. We don’t just fight for our survival, or the survival of the next generations. We fight for them to LIVE.
With all my love and light,
~ Chris