I earnestly hope enough Americans read and learn from history. The biggest pattern to glean in my opinion is that often when the majority populace realizes some action needs to be taken, it is too late. There is no way around preemptive action (and for clarity, I'm not talking about violence, since that would violate rules here, I mean things like general strikes, forming a new political party, aggressive political ads, consumer activism,etc.. but whatever is needed). You can't do much as an individual, but you can do a lot as a large group. There is real power in numbers, and now more than ever, there is tech that enables unrelated people with common ideals to organize and collaborate.

A second lesson history teaches us is that career politicians in power are ineffective when it comes to taking drastic and crucial action. They calculate using outdated variables and formulae. The game has changed and they find it difficult to even accept that fact. They know the stakes are high, but their focus is preservation and restoration of the game, even when have good intentions, they are incapable of protecting what is most important.

A certain critical-mass of people that actually like their country and are willing to do whatever it takes to preserve it is needed to prevent a nation from collapsing. If those people expect politicians or some other established official entity to take action, by the time they realize there is no one but them who can take action, it will be too late.

The time to act is yesterday.

Wow! that 1st amendment doesn't really work anymore.

When I lived in the US on a green card (for 20 years) I was leary about political activity, there were never any obvious rules against it, and I was in this "taxation without representation" state so had to find outlets other than voting in order to have a say about how my taxes were spent (I'm from NZ where people with green card equivalents are very much allowed to vote)

Seems like this guy was doing all the right things, even applying to become a citizen - I guess the american dream has rather soured under an authoritarian government

I was mainly devils'-advocating, up until this guy.

With this guy, I can find no fault. If you watch his 60 Minutes interview, it seems heartfelt and authentic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grj328-hlhA Plus, if he was born Palestinian and is now a Buddhist, that means that he willingly chose to endure the risk of getting killed as an apostate.

Something must be done.

The rule of law is dead in America.

https://revealnews.org/podcast/gaza-a-war-of-weapons-and-wor... Interviewed here in 12/23.