The End Of The Road?

I know sometimes I sound like a doom crier, but I think we’ve reached the point where we can feel that noose tightening around our necks.

Across America, judges, mayors, and citizens are being arrested, and sometimes assaulted, for doing nothing more than standing up for the rights of Americans and residents of the United States.

They are standing up for the Constitution and are ending up behind bars.

In Washington, DC, a president and a slimy little Jack-booted lap dog are telling us that they’re walking to suspend the constitutional right to habeas corpus. In effect, we will no longer have the right to due process.

Without it, we can be locked up for any reason and for any amount of time. We can be convinced with no evidence and deported to concentration camps around the world. Or hell, even concentration camps in our own country.

On top of all that, it appears we will have a $1 trillion military budget.

I can only think of two things they will do with that budget. One, give the money to the military-industrial complex. And two, use the expanded military to put a boot right on our throats.

So instead of universal healthcare, universal education paid for by our own tax money, we get to fund the evil empire against the resistance. We get to finance Darth Vader and the emperor as opposed to Princess Leia and the rebellion.

What have we done, America?

What? Have we allowed to happen?

We are one hair away from living in 1930s-1940s Germany.

I’m scared and I’m not afraid to admit it.

I’m getting old. I’m a white man. I’m married to a woman. I’m not as worried about what’s going to happen to me. I have the privilege.

But I have children. I have grandchildren. I have friends. And frankly, I have the fucking human decency to worry about people that I’m not related to.

We live in dark days.

If we don’t stand up, if we don’t say something, if we don’t do something, we may be living in the final days of the Republic.

I’m scared to say that we may need to take up arms.

I’m a pacifist, and the idea sickens me. However, I’m again concerned for our people and our nation. If we don’t take action now, we will, most definitely, be the last generation of Americans who are truly American. Everything that comes after will be a pale, sad imitation.

It’s a fact that all civilizations and societies fall to the forces of time.

But this is too soon.


-Josh (05-10-2025)