Well-meaning friends have advised me that I shouldn't be making all these political journals - I could get banned from FA for good, if the wrong snowflake gets triggered. Why not just keep my head down, and occasionally talk about my dog or a visit to a furry con? This is a furry fandom site, after all.
Well....keeping one's head down is only a good idea if you have the option of raising it up when you feel the need to. If not, you're just saving the thug holding your head down the toilet some effort, and why would you want that?
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As anyone who has access to news, even the bowlderized corporate sort, should know, we're in the formative phase of an authoritarian government. The press is being bullied into line, the law is being ignored, and masked, unaccountable goons flood the streets.
And as any history buff can tell you, there's only about two ways fascist regimes are defeated: One, stop them before they consolidate power - while there's still a free press, independent judiciary, the actual, functional pillars of a democratic republic, not just the hollowed-out zombie facades of them.
Two, wait for the dictator and his enablers to die of old age. Oh, and sometimes they flee to Argentina when the wars they started go against them.

I'm not young enough for method two to be a viable alternative. And let's not forget: Third-world type authoritarianism is very often followed by a third-world type economy. Remember the massive tax cuts every Republican administration has handed their corporate owners, the last few decades? Those tax cuts add up, yes they do. In fact, the vast majority of the US tax burden has been shifted onto the middle class. Unfortunately, the middle class has been all but wiped out by the looting spree of the billionaires. Ooops, bad timing!
So we've funded the US military and social programs largely by borrowing. We've borrowed so much, it's now becoming uncertain if we can even afford the interest on the national debt. If we're to avoid a devastatingly painful financial crash, we'll have to be very careful, thrifty, diplomatic.
Now look at the current occupant of the White House. Do any of those three words apply to him? Hmmm?

So when the Crash comes, what am I going to do? I'm basically an entertainer - a luxury. If your kids are going hungry, will you be spending any of your money on the silly funny-animal comics I currently make for a living? I don't believe so.
If the US economy goes down in flames, and I end up unable to make an honest living......Well, the option of fleeing to Iceland is open to me, I suppose. But I've made a very pleasant life here in Tucson with Traci, and I don't want to give it up if I don't have to. And let's not forget that most US po'folks do not have the option of fleeing overseas. What will they do? Starve quietly? Maybe not.

So that's why I'm begging anyone who will listen to check their voter registration well in advance, so the effects of the Repub's desperate voter-suppression programs will be blunted - hopefully enough so the "Blue Wave" will actually happen - that the demented Nazi-wannabes we're currently suffering under will be replaced by good old, all-American, sleazy political whores.
So yeah, the Midterms coming up might actually matter. Will Prump's terms in the White House be remembered as some absurd dinosaur-thrashings that ultimately came to nothing, or the start of the long national nightmare that destroyed our status in the world and left us impoverished for generations? It can go either way from here. So choose carefully, eh?