Found at Closer to the Edge on Substack. Worth reading, worth remembering, worth sharing.

SECTION I: THE PREAMBLE

When in the course of human events, a government abandons its duty and weaponizes its power against the people it was meant to serve, it becomes the right, and the obligation, of the people to resist.

We are not radicals. We are not extremists. We are not ungrateful.

We are citizens who have watched our leaders celebrate the suffering of others, legislate away human dignity, and laugh as they strip healthcare from the sick and food from the hungry. We have waited. We have hoped. We have pleaded for decency.

But the government of the United States, as it now stands under President Donald J. Trump, no longer serves the public good.

It does not preserve life—it endangers it.

It does not secure liberty—it undermines it.

It does not promote happiness—it enshrines cruelty.

This is not the product of incompetence. It is intentional.
He governs with malice. He legislates with vengeance. He drapes himself in flags and lies and calls it patriotism, while millions bleed beneath the weight of his policies.

We do not rise today to tear this country down.

We rise to tear it back from those who have hijacked it.

We rise not in rebellion against America, but in defense of its soul.

Read the remainder at Closer to the Edge, and do all you can to resist the fascism of this illegitimate administration.

The Old Wolf has spoken.