DEAR AMERICA: AN OPEN LETTER FOR THOSE WHO LOVE DEMOCRACY #2
“When people show you who they are, believe them the first time.” ~ Maya Angelou
Dear America, In a matter of months, one administration backed by the Republican political party, has chosen to disregard the constitution, and attempt to destroy all that’s good, true, and meaningful about our country.
Dear America, Where are the political leaders speaking up every day to save due process of the law, freedom of speech, the right to peacefully protest, and reinstate the checks and balances of our political system.
Dear America, It appears you’re at a crossroads, a turning point, a Hinge of History – you’re either going to stand up, speak up, and not give in to fascism, authoritarianism, and an erosion of freedom in every form – or this could be the Fall of America.
Dear America, all across the country federal immigration agents wearing masks, showing no badge numbers, went into schools, factories, and workplaces – kidnapping citizens, with no warrants and no due process.
Dear America, Are you OK with journalists being shot at close range in the head/face/leg with potentially lethal rubber bullets?
Dear America, Tyrannical forms of government disappear people, the way we’ve seen this administration disappear people.
Dear America, Remember, you are the United States of America. Not run by a Tyrant or a King. It is a country where the leaders we vote into office work for We the People.
Dear America, After several months of kidnapping and deporting people to foreign prisons, without a warrant or due process – it’s easy to understand why this corrupt and cruel for the sake of cruelty administration isn’t looked upon as helping American citizens, voters, non-voters, in any way.
Dear America, are you OK with reporters being handcuffed and led out of protest zones just for reporting what’s happening in real time? Denying freedom of the press documented on video. What the hell is happening? None of this is acceptable.
Dear America, Here’s the question you have to ask yourself when you wake up in the morning: “Which side of history do you want to be on? Do you want to be on the side of freedom and democracy, or on the side of authoritarianism, oligarchies, and fascism?”
Dear America, Tyranny doesn’t suit you. You need to pull yourself together. Where is the opposition party, the guardians of Democracy? Why aren’t they speaking up loud and clear? Treating any citizen without any degree of humanity and without due process affects everyone. This is currently the central issue for elected Democratic lawmakers to address. Speak up now, speak up daily, and make a stand. Save our country.
Dear America, Turning the United States Marines into the personal police force of one administration is autocracy run amuck.
Dear America, Kidnapping people from their homes, workplaces, and schools, and violently throwing children and wives to the ground in the process – is un-American, horrific, and using cruelty toward human beings for the sake of cruelty.
Dear America, The gaslighting has stopped working, quite a while ago. The Republicans created the “immigration problem” and the current administration has manufactured a crisis. There never was an “open border.” That’s just a buzzword phrase to get folks riled up.
Dear America, Seize the day, the hour, this moment in history We the People are now living inside. Prevent the Republican party from allowing Democracy to be destroyed. Do it now.
Dear America, Peaceful protests are going to change the destructive direction the Republican party is consenting to. Speak up, march in the streets against injustice, and do so nonviolently. Protect and take care of yourselves. Create your better future today.
Timely and timeless. Beautiful, strong and inspiring.
@alisajones Alisa Kennedy Jones, Thank You.