Here is something a bit positive. I thought you might like to be uplifted a bit.
--Kim
Here's an interesting tidbit...
It is very, very difficult, psychologically, for most humans to kill another human.
There are no absolutely scientifically known statistics, because how would we get that data? But it is widely understood and historically/situationally supported that about 80-90% of the population has such strong inhibitions against killing other humans that for practical purposes... they cannot, unless in self-defense or other severe situation. Another 10-20% of the population would kill another human with extreme training, extreme inducement, or extreme dehumanizing of the other. Only about 1-3% of humans will kill another human without much or any inhibition at all.
Many who return from wars claim that having killed another human was the most horrific, and the most psychologically destabilizing, thing that happened to them. Some studies indicate that soldiers often aim above the heads of the enemy because they can't bring themselves to kill, even with all their training and the duress of being under fire themselves. This latter point is a reason for a great deal of military training: To UNtrain the killing inhibition.
This inhibition against killing can be muffled by training. It can be minimized by dehumanizing those to be killed. But it is nearly impossible to snuff out entirely.
And even when it is muffled and minimized, it almost always results in severe psychological trauma to the person conducting the killing.
What I'm trying to say is that the forces that are currently relying on psychological warfare against us, are conducting even more effective psychological warfare against themselves. Minus that tiny percentage (we all know the names of people who fit that profile, the ones responsible for recent and less recent murders), the "work" of terrorizing is psychologically destructive to the very people conducting the terror campaign.
Of course we all know that genocide is a thing and that it happens periodically across history. In order for it to happen, the oppressing force first has to dehumanize the victims. Then they have convince everyone that they're not planning to hurt them, only to ... send them home; incarcerate them; put them to work... etc.
The "final solution" (Hitler's word for the gas chambers in which his regime murdered millions) was "final" because it was the last step in a very long progression of steps, each of which slowly eroded the population's inhibition against killing or allowing others to be killed.
What I'm trying to tell you is that yes, the progression you're watching is real. Yes, it's terrifying. Yes, they're pulling out the stops.
But here's the thing. When we say we are many and they are few? It's more than that. Not only are we many, we are healthy. We are humans behaving as humans. In the most human way possible: Taking care of each other. We are robust, sturdy, and fueled by our communal work, not drained by it.
The human species proliferated not because we dominate each other, but because we cooperate with each other. It is a deeply, deeply human characteristic to take care of each other, even when the systems of oppression try to convince us it's not. I'm thinking of a neighbor who went to extraordinary lengths to help an unhoused person... a neighbor I happen to know voted for Trump. The HUMANITY in that neighbor, when faced with an actual human in front of them, chose humanity, not ideology.
(I'm not asking you to overlook or excuse the voting behavior. That's not my point here. I have my thoughts on that, but it's not what I want to discuss right now.)
The point is, the forces of evil look so very scary right now. Because they are full on frontal assault against us. And they're sending more. They're pulling out even more stops. But the fly in their ointment is that the system is fragile. It's fragile because it's working against every single human instinct in the people it depends on for its sustenance.
Humans can only fool themselves for so long. Eventually, the truth comes home.
Eventually, it's their neighbor's children who are dragged out of the house and handcuffed. Eventually, it's their coworker who is shot in the face. Eventually, it's their friend who is illegally "deported" to a concentration camp. And I'm not even saying that it has to come home to them personally. It just has to become HUMAN to them.
Eventually, fascism collapses in on itself like a machine forced to feed on itself for sustenance. Because that is exactly what it is.
Eventually, the only ones left standing for fascism are the 1-3%, and 1-3% of the population can't keep the rest of the population in check forever.
And what's even more heartening, my friends, is that the fragility of the system is even more fragile when it's resisted by something real, and human, and strong.
It simply cannot stand. It can stand no easier than a pile of straw can stand against a tsunami. We are the tsunami.
This will not be forever. I promise. And the harder we fight, the faster it crumbles. Because we know what we're fighting for, and it's the most human thing in the world: Each other.
You keep your chin up. On the other side of all this is something new and wonderful, something so beautiful, abundant, nurturing and profound that we haven't even dreamed it all the way yet.
"Where there is great light, great darkness must appear to have the light shown into it." ~ Robin Youngblood
The great darkness is here, my friends. And we are the great light.
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