Thread by @ominousrabbit

Look. This seems like hyperbole.

But it's not: The DoJ is getting more and more politicized, especially as the Mueller investigation circles the most inner circles of the Trump machine.

What isn't affecting you personally is still affecting millions of people.

External Tweet loading...
If nothing shows, it may have been deleted
by @RevolutionArt2 view original on Twitter

And the laws that are being rewritten for the DoJ will be rewritten for you too at some point.

External Tweet loading...
If nothing shows, it may have been deleted
by @RevolutionArt2 view original on Twitter

External Tweet loading...
If nothing shows, it may have been deleted
by @RevolutionArt2 view original on Twitter

We were talking to our 14 year old this very evening about the apocryphal "Frog in a Pot."

External Tweet loading...
If nothing shows, it may have been deleted
by @RevolutionArt2 view original on Twitter

And we're slowly boiling.

Some of it is merely the chaos of dysfunctional governance. But much of it is ideologically instituted.

The biggest and most consequential changes to our way of life are happening at the city, county and state level.

Under the radar of mass media and the toddler raving maniacally in the White House.

On the surface, things are really terrible, and we rage against it.

While that is happening, laws are being introduced to punish "undesirable" people. It can be in city halls. It can be in little tiny counties with low populations.

All these laws have a way of working their way UP.

They start small. thinkprogress.org/anti-protest-l…

These anti-protest laws have been introduced for years--long before Trump was even a blip on our radar of horror.

The Tea Party was BUSY. They were systematically rewriting protest #1A laws so that protest became anti-business, and therefore anti-American.

And those laws were tested on January 21, 2017 when the first protesters were arrested in the #WomensMarch.

And then there were the protesters at #Sessions nomination hearing; the charges were eventually dismissed, but it took the better part of a year.

Which--I have to say--is pretty fucking ominous. I mean, a woman wearing a pink hat chuckled during a hearing and was arrested, hassled, tried, and eventually found innocent of....?

All of these things can be ignored on an individual basis.

"Oh, man. Sucks to be that chick who laughed at a hearing."

There are so many of these small individual events that it's building up to a genuine catastrophe.

Much of which is under-reported, misreported or ignored altogether.

So even when Trump/Erdogan/Putin/Pinochet gets taken out--which is inevitable; no one lives forever--the laws will be in place for the Ivankas/Millers/Assholes to slip in to power.

And because of laws--#CitizensUnited specifically, but a ton of laws in actuality--they'll "legally" be allowed to do so, including being funded by oligarchs like the #KochBrothers and and foreign entity who bought in at the right time.

Because at a certain point, the laws stop being written for you and me, and equality, and parity, and morality.

And begin being written for structural suppression.

We're deep in that point. We're diving deep into "failing democracy" territory.

And the reason that it's failing is in part because people had NO IDEA that it was even an issue.

I've been stewing on this for a while. And I don't have an answer, but I have a lot of questions:

There are the people who are ALL IN for Trump. We can ignore them for the time being.

There are the people who are convinced that there is a SERIOUS FUCKING PROBLEM. Those people are active, loud, inventive and seemingly tireless.

(thank you, everyone, for being tireless.)

The most important part of this equation--much like the most consequential laws being written in the smallest of burgs--

is all the people who are still living in some other time.

I literally have no idea what they're experiencing right now.

There are swaths of America where no one cares about what is happening.

They might not even know there's a crisis.

And I have to say, those are the people we need to meet.

We need to go there.

Those are the people we need to reach.

Because you and I know that the Trumpians of Trumpistan will be there with their Godliness and their xenophobia and their fear of women having equal pay before any Dems have even identified them as voters.

I have no idea how to reach voters who might look at me like I'm an alien.

But I know that our future is in their hands.

The apathetic voters can be turned. It's a question of who gets there first.

unroll @threadreaderapp