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Quote #1193 - #EverMoreVigilant
07 Jul, 2025
EVER MORE VIGILANT
"Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied."
Pearl S. Buck
"Once the cancer of authoritarianism gets into the veins and organs of society, it's not easy to get out."
Ece Temelkuran
HOW TO LOSE A COUNTRY, IN SEVEN STEPS
"The price of liberty is eternal vigilance."
Frederick Douglass
I sent these quotes--and these words--in 2020, the year of the election that gave us Biden, trying to clean up the mess of 45, the halfway point when we almost managed to save ourselves. We've passed that point, and every day gets worse. I could not celebrate this Independence Day. I could not celebrate this country. But I offer these words again, only slightly modified. For now we must be ever more vigilant.
It isn't enough to hate what is happening.
It isn't enough to wish it weren't true.
It isn't enough to rail against it among those who agree.
We must do whatever is necessary
to get this would-be-king out of office,
to get all his autocratic apologists (and puppet-masters)
out of power and control,
and to put enough people in power, in the majority of our government,
who believe in law, justice, true collaboration, and real compromise.
Those who would oppress and cheat
have used all our best traits and habits against us.
We must get them out.
And that means we must band together and work together
and use those habits, those tools,
those best traits of how we function,
not to hedge and hem and haw--
allowing ourselves to be manipulated to tear each other apart--
but
to support each other to get through this.
This is the only way out of our current trajectory towards
the end of our democracy.
This is the eternal vigilance that the moment demands.
Shellen Lubin
July 7, 2025
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