11 Aug 2025
Letter #1: Investigating the 2024 Election
By BT
By RBT
(Note: The following is intended to be an idea of what to say to or write to friends, family and others who are not involved in the fight to take back this democracy. Use the parts that sound like you. Remember we need to get to 3.5% or 12,000,000 non violent protesters to effect the changes we need.)
Here you go:
On deep summer evenings, I enjoy watching the lowering sun decorate the clouds with color. It heightens my faith in our future as a country. Thinking comes easy, without boundaries, without fear of having absurd thoughts and finding the things for which I am grateful.
That did not go well this evening. I found that I am deeply ashamed in my behavior.
For much of my life, I had been dispassionate, perhaps apathetic towards the events that framed the country in which I lived. I took for granted that all would go on as it had throughout my life. This was a false assumption.
My emotions are now surfacing as I all too slowly come to recognize what has taken place in this, my country, our democracy. Oh, that could not happen, I thought. That too was a false assumption.
We have lost our democracy and are functioning under a dictator. Now, that is just fake news. No, it is real. All the pieces are in place…well, not all. What is not fully in place is our, yours and mine, agreement to this taking over and destroying our voice in the government, the rule of the people, all of us. I do not agree to it. Neither should you.
This is no longer a time for lack of passion or apathy. Blind faith will not work. The opposite is required. A passion for democracy must move us into actions to restore what we loved, took pride in, battled foes in other lands and even those inside our country so we would continue to have our voice in how this country operates in a democracy.
We must find ways to first weaken their structure, to dismember the pieces that form the support for this dictator and those who join in his destructive behavior.
In brief, get involved. Whether holding a placard, making yourself a problem to your elected offending officials, giving of your time and money to those who are pursuing a change back to democracy, staying informed, and protesting any way you can. Fearlessly be a voice of truth to any who will listen.
Shake off your fears and go forward into this war against tyranny. If not today, then tomorrow. Each of our futures with this current person are bleak and heading each of us, you and me, into personal calamity.
Already we are being shown how to fight this loss of our government. It is on the street corners, in the raised voices of reason, rejecting unlawful orders, not participating in any and all activities that advance their strangle hold on your voice, on your freedom, and your participation in your democratically run government.
We will go into this fight together, you and I.
Sincerely,
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