SEEING DARKNESS AND BEING LIGHT A Response to the Fascism of our Time
©Wendell Griffen, 2024 Heather Cox Richardson’s latest assessment on U.S. politics is worth pondering. https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-20-2024 . Historians will soon record that the 2016 and 2024 elections of Donald John Trump fueled an era of fascism in the United States that threatened the world for decades. And, if Trump’s tenure as President of the United States does not ultimately result in the death of democracy, it could still leave democratic norms in shambles. Trump’s deference to Elon Musk, Musk’s fascist capitalism, and white pseudo-Christian fascism and Zionism already endanger women, indigenous people of color, LGBTQIA people, immigrants, and dissidents across the world, as well as the planet’s ecosystem. Lust for greed, violence, domination, and self-worship does not make a society or its leaders great. It is a force that eventually consumes its host like metastasizing cancer or a raging virus. It is important to remember that...