Prepping for Fascism:

I’ve spent my whole life preparing for this crisis. I’m a Black, gay socialist, with a disabled, Jewish wife. Both of us live our lives knowing we’d be primary targets in a fascist uprising. I saw it as a basic survival skill to be able to spot the signs.

Clearly, the education and warnings we had did not resonate clearly enough for others. Because somehow, we’re here again. Because despite knowing about censorship, propaganda, disinformation & the dangers of fascism - a whole mass of the population is drunk on it.

What no one warns you about is how hard you have to work, and how brave you have to be, to hold onto reality when the entire system is geared against it.
When every newspaper, pundit and celebrity influencer is piling on the pressure to say 2+2= anything other than 4.

Rewards are handed out left, right and centre for anyone who capitulates. While punishment, ridicule and ostracism await those who refuse. So it does pit people’s survival instincts against their moral code. And there aren’t many of us who choose morality in that moment.

So I wanted to send love and cwtches to every single person, everywhere in the world, that is making that choice everyday. Because you don’t just make it once. It’s an ongoing action. You are brave, you are right, you matter. And we will come through this https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✊🏾" title="Erhobene Faust (durchschnittlich dunkler Hautton)" aria-label="Emoji: Erhobene Faust (durchschnittlich dunkler Hautton)">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="❤️" title="Rotes Herz" aria-label="Emoji: Rotes Herz">