We Are The Bad Guys
Author: Chris ODonnell From https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/ • Feb 20th, 2025Category: Blog Entries.Local, Politics
I was a fairly typical NFL fan for most of my life. A few years ago I burnt out on it, in part because my team, the New England Patriots, had become the bad guys.
That sums up my feelings about being an American right now. We are the bad guys. We are not Reagan's shining beacon on a hill (ignore for now that Reagan's beacon only shined on white people), we are Mordor. We are ruled by an unelected South African Nazi with a chip on his shoulder about losing official white supremacy in his home county. So now he has bought the President and is instituting it here.
It would only take 4 Republicans to stop all of this, but unfortunately the number of honest Republicans in Congress is zero. I'm not sure if there are 4 honest Republicans in the country. It is much quicker to break the law than enforce it. The Courts are slowly ruling against Musk and Trump, but they are just ignoring the ruling and doing whatever the fuck they want, confident that the Congressional Republicans are happy to cede the power of the purse to Trump if it means he doesn't fund the opposition in their next primary.
So we can't count on Congress or the Courts. We probably shouldn't wish for a military coup. What does that leave us?
It leaves us. Us. We the people.
This article is hopeful. It argues that no government has ever withstood the active opposition of 3.5% of the population. So we need, on average, 3.5 out of every 100 people actively protesting. You find a friend on week one, and them both of you add a different friend on week two, and you are at 5 out of 100 for your social circle. Rinse and repeat, and the dictator is toppled.
Easy, right?
Of course, it won't be easy. But 3.5% is not an insurmountable number. We can do that. We must do that.