If you are in this fight against the MAGA fascists, then I hope you may read these words.
Much our time is spent these days dedicated to media telling us how bad things are and explaining the intricacies of what they’re doing and what they may do. There’s also discussion of how we might fight them, and all of this is important material.
However, I feel there is another need as well.
I do not wish to add to your burden, so I hope this will instead add to your power: let us consider what we will be demanding after MAGA falls.
It is vital to form these demands now because they also informs back into how we need to fight them to win.
If we will achieve a better tomorrow, then please consider these words.
What I write here is lent to me through the great shoulders of those who have come before. Thinkers and doers going back to before our nation began.
In this moment of peril, please join me on a journey and a purpose of improving a blueprint for restoring freedom and justice for all.
Here you find the blog that is a companion to the Wiki at ProjectLiberty2029.info.
There you will find specific guidance and proposals for firstly, winning back our country from fascists, and secondly, after we have thrown them down for securing our liberty and a world of justice for the future.
I believe we cannot wait until after the war for our freedom to declare the principles for which we stand.
In fact, we may not succeed in throwing off the yoke of their tyranny without first declaring our vision.
We must somehow coalesce around what we want, not just what we do not want: without this we run the risk of becoming Occupy Wall Street.
Instead of amorphous feelings and protests, we need a specific map that can point to our north star. We need a beacon to help guide us in choosing our champions, our future leaders, and our actions.
With this joint vision, we shall be able to overwhelm the MAGA fascist project with mass opposition.
This is necessary not only for victory, but for sealing victory. They are wily and cunning and have no shame. Even after their defeat, they will attempt every trick to obfuscate and hide and come back to win again another day.
We need to know where we are headed so that we can plan what we need to keep and what we need to destroy.
For it is of little advantage to us to regain the kingdom if we have just burned the bridge to a promised land.
On the scale of history, you and I and almost all of us are going to be lost soon enough.
But together, you and I and millions others may come together to make a capital “W” kind of We, as in “We the People.”
As part of “We the People,” we the regular folk do have a chance to endure across history.
We have a chance in our collective works not to be lost
But in order to endure, we must now create the right kind of change.
A change now is inevitable because what is happening around us now cannot continue. An old adage observes: that which cannot continue will not.
In order to be the authors of change and not its victims, we - that big capital “We” - must demand it.
For we face peril from even our saviors. We may be lost again and again if we let them define some kind of generic “Change” for the upcoming elections.
We must say exactly what we demand, because if we do not exactly articulate our demands in a form that can become exact laws and exact changes to the Constitutions, the Presidency, the Supreme Court, the social contract of Capitalism, and on down the line, then our politicians will ask again for our votes…
… they will point to some complicated plan...
… they will have some slogans like “Restore America,” or “Renewal,” or “Dignity,” or some other pithy thing that polls well.
And without a specific ask by We the People, they will almost without a doubt deliver thousands of pages and millions of words of legislation that We the People will have no chance of understanding.
And they may even believe that they know better and that in the compromises hidden within that pile of law they have what is practical and what is in our best interests at heart.
But it will not be true.
In that after-the-election law-pileup there will be buried a betrayal waiting to fail in its promise. As another adage goes: old age and treachery will always defeat youth and enthusiasm.
Without words that we can all hope to comprehend, we will not attain a durable reform of government into an instrument that protects our liberties through Justice for All.
And our hopes will be dashed.
Some of you who are still reading may be resisting the idea that we should entertain such high hopes for durable Justice at all.
On many days I also feel that pain: the pain that comes from feeling that hope itself is a torture because we seem to always find it betrayed.
But it is not our place to be eternal. We all must accept that piece of today that we can build, because we cannot live long enough to stand at the end of history and see how she concluded.
And yet: here we stand here at a fulcrum of history.
At this turning point we must do that which is given to us. For what we succeed or fail at will determine a course toward a concentrated, corrupting power and ruin, or toward a better and more egalitarian and diverse future.
What happens now will be written about for hundreds, if not thousands of years.
Will they write that we gave up? Will they write that we were the bad guys because we opposed fascism? If that is what they will write, then we will have lost.
Or…
Will they write that we rose to the occasion? Will the children of tomorrow be learning in a school where they are taught not to be afraid?
Will they be taught that might does not make right? That it must only be used to make good on what is right. Will they be taught they must be always vigilant against those who would bring about tyranny and fascism? If that is what they are taught, then we will have won.
It is not just up to any single one of us. It is up to us together.
The togetherness that makes We the People.
It is We the People who must fight to bring down this tyranny and build up a better America.
And so you face a choice to take your moment of action, this moment of history, and give up. Or you can join with the millions, like I do, to say, no, I will not go gentle into that goodnight.
There is a word for us: we are patriots.
When we make the Pledge of Allegiance, we understand the words with “Liberty and Justice for All” to mean what it says.
Another word for us is the grassroots. And what are the grassroots, but the living foundations and the underpinnings of life itself?
We may also be Democrats, Independents, the un-Republicans.
I am of the conviction that somehow, through the many layers of who we are, we must coalesce and come together on a legal language for reforming our laws and our Constitution, where that language is simple enough for regular people - for We the People - to understand.
And so I here make my ask and my offer for you to join in supporting putting forth a version of that language.
I have an initial set of proposals on the wiki at ProjectLiberty2029.info.
There’s much more coming. This is from work I have done over the past eight years. The material comes from two previously self-published book-length works, but I believe it now must be on a wiki where a wider community can dissect and amend them.
The work I’ve done is to create them, and the work I’m doing now is to update and transfer them to the wiki. It’s all very time consuming.
I would be grateful for any support, sharing these posts, messaging, engaging on social media. Of course, a paid subscription here on Substack or on Patreon would be amazing.
There’s also a need for help on the wiki: not just to read the material but to buckle down and volunteer your expertise. That may mean making amendments to what’s there. It may mean spreading them among your colleagues.
The ultimate help will come from those who are in office or who seek office, federal or state, but primarily federal representatives and senators.
To you I make the final ask. Please adopt these proposals or fix them with us and then adopt them. Please communicate the strategies we need under the Strategies of Winning
I believe that we much better than even odds prevailing in this struggle for Freedom through the fog of war and fire that bears down upon us not unlike the cannons of the English upon the fields of the revolution 250 years ago.
It will take courage. In many ways, a different kind of courage for a modern conflict.
I believe that our struggle this time will be mostly peaceful.
I also believe that it will be more honest.
Because today we know - you know and I know - that We the People really is meant to mean all of us. Not just the rich, not just the landed, not just the whites, not just the men.
Today we know that All of us are born with inalienable rights to Dignity and Justice for All.
In the hopes of that better tomorrow, I ask you for your support, and for your participation.
And I ask you not to lose hope. I ask you to keep faith with the proposition that our nation, founded on Liberty and Justice for All, shall not perish from this earth.
Not while We the People still defend her.
Amen. America.
