We are the leaders we are looking for

They think this is their time, but it's actually ours.

New hero narrative just dropped. It's you.

There now can be no doubt that your calling is humanly meaningful; if ever there was a need for people who care about others, here it is. And while they think this is their time, it's actually ours.

They will burn it down, but we will rebuild it based on democratic principles. Equality and justice will finally be ours.

This nation was built on fascism, but with the promise of democracy. I've clung to the promise of democracy in the hope that small changes could nudge us there. But Small Change got rained on with his own .38.

The fascists won temporarily, but fascism is for losers. They'll fail. They are con men and swindlers. And when they do lose, we make a real democracy. The kind they hate. Their "creative destruction" will be democracy rising.

Just look at the opportunities! If you look into your heart you know deep down that predatory capitalism has us all sick, has enabled a war and prison industry, that our society is configured in ways that divide and alienate us from what is our best nature, that the two party system entrenches power.

Let them break it. Let them defund it. It didn't protect us anyway. The system was built on fascism. This will be our chance to rebuild a system based on democracy and equality. It's a gift, actually. A painful and stressful gift.

As things break, we have to be ready to swoop into the void to replace them with things we can control, things that work better, things built by the people on the principles of solidarity, equality, and sharing. This is our time. We are the heroes we need.

They already broke the information network. They did that first, as authoritarian movements have always done. If you paid attention to MSM, then you were isolated in an information bubble that did not reach the majority to inform or persuade them. We need to swoop in to fill the void.

We lost because we were trying to work within the system to defend the system. That’s managerial and necessarily weak. They won because they confronted the system and built new systems to attack the established systems. We can too.

This is our time. Don’t give up in advance.

Originally posted as a BlueSky thread November 10, 2024.