Kevin Bowersox

2025-02-04 17:34:59

Speech without an audience.

Felon Trump has been using “common sense” as a way to avoid spelling out his racist logic. I could talk ten minutes on that, but I won’t.

Instead I want to lay some heartland common sense on the Republican party. Here’s a little nugget that we all understand at some instinctual level.

If the law does not apply to all, it is not justice, it is oppression.

If you are playing poker with someone and they start looking through the deck to pull out the card they need, you are not in a card game any more, you’re in a fist fight.

Common sense.

You can’t ignore the rules and expect others to follow them.

Republicans, when you elected felon Trump, you changed the rules. There could not have been any clearer message that the law was for others, not you.

Back when the Republican party had some intestinal fortitude, back when they had two ideals to rub together, before they sold out completely, they were fond of saying “actions have consequences” and they were right.

Common sense.

Today, we call that FAFO. F-ed around and found out. Different name, still common sense.

So let me tell you what my common sense tells you, the Republican party, to expect.

When you changed the law from justice into oppression, you made the American people an oppressed people. History and common sense tells us that oppressed people fight back.

Your actions, Republicans, changed breaking the law from an injustice into an act of rebellion against an oppressor. This knowledge is instinctual. Not everyone will be able to express it, but every oppressed person feels it.

Some Americans will act out through civil disobedience as great people like Gandhi and Martin Luther King have done. You’re familiar with that and probably expecting it. So I won’t say much about it.

Instead I’ll mention things you might not be expecting, but should be.

Some Americans will fight back through economic means. Inside Corporations you can expect work slowdowns, reductions in efficiency, general friction. Outside the corporations, you can expect American consumers to be very careful about what businesses they support.

You thought “cancel culture” was bad, just wait. People will eventually follow the money and realize that they can assert their power to stop feeding the broligarchs.

Not everyone is so polite, though. Other Americans are going to start fighting back in more physical ways.

Expect some to fight back by breaking rich people’s stuff. I would not be surprised to start seeing country club greens torn up by big trucks. To see vandalism at resorts and high-end restaurants. Eventually we’ll see sabotage of yachts and private aircraft, damage or blockage of roads in affluent areas. Any symbol of wealth and status will be a target. If I owned a swastikar I would be VERY careful where I parked it.

Eventually there will be more violence against the rich. You, Republicans, are the main reason we have more guns than people in this country. The main reason we have police that look and act like military units. The main reason that we have an absurdly high military budget. What did Jesus say about living by the sword?

Oppressed people find ways of fighting back. It is the “Found out” part of FAFO. It follows naturally. Common sense.

Republicans, in November of 2024 you changed crime into a patriotic act. You made heroes of armed insurrectionists. You made a hero of a felon and sex offender. You chose to steer our country off of the path the forefathers set us on of order and rule of law. We are on a different path now, but by no means a new one. It is the path you CHOSE with your actions.

Actions have consequences.

If the law does not apply to everyone it is no longer justice, it is oppression.

Oppressed people fight back however they can.

Common sense.

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