I think what is happening is that even people like ourselves are standing paralyzed while a mugging, a robbery, and a rape is taking place. I think we're all in shock at what's happening in what we thought was a good neighborhood and a safe place to live. I mean, of course, our country. Perhaps it is the timing of it, sooner than many of us expected; the magnitude, so broad that it can't easily be pinned only on one segment of society; or the subversive power, so deep that it affects not only strangers but neighbors, friends, and family.
We saw it coming...but we didn't. And now it's not theoretical but real enough that it may be only a month away.
Other people have lived through such times, and we have read about them, but none of us on this board, with the possible exception of immigrants from war-torn states, has really experienced this kind of cultural, moral, and social tsunami that threatens to break over this Republic.
Maybe the real question is: who, at this point, do we trust? And where do we look for aid in resistance?
