Yesterday at 9 AM I published what's below the line here ( original diary, July 4 ), but less than ten people saw it, because about a dozen others posted excellent diaries right after I posted mine, so mine got deeply buried to the second page of Community stories. Thanks to those who DID see it, and to the two that commented. I apologize for thinking July 4 morning would be a dead time, when the opposite turned out to be true.
My purpose is to hear others, in the comments, describe how they will redirect their lives afterward, if MAGA wins on November 5. I personally have been unable to function lately, until I began spending lots of time thinking about this. I felt like a patient with a 50-50 chance of being gone in a few months only paying attention to the illness, and not thinking about the perhaps likely death the illness will cause. So I distilled my thoughts about my future, and then put them here. I hope this stimulates contemplation by others who will comment.
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The second "even worse than we ever feared" shoe dropped just in time for July 4th.
The first of our worst fears set in motion by the 2016 election was how horrible Trump would turn out to be.
The second was how horrible the Supreme Court would be after he changed it.
As we now realize, BOTH of those worst fears have now been totally exceeded.
So, now we all face not an election in exactly four months, but a crossroads, one fork of which will be hell, worse than the world faced in the thirties.
Then, the USA was responsible for pulling the world out from hell in the forties, by winning World War II.
This time, the taken over USA will join Putin and the other current dictators to LEAD the world INTO hell!
And this time there will be no equivalent to 1940s USA to ever bring the new hell to an end.
So, It will be the beginning either of human extinction, or of a new very long Dark Age.
What will you go on living for, and for how long, after November 5th, if a majority of US voters have just sent the world on the road to hell?
In the late 1960s, when my school first taught my class about the Holocaust, I decided I would NEVER let fascism come to America and not TOTALLY oppose it.
So here I am, many years later, having to decide what the concrete form of that opposition will be, if and when that fascism begins in four months.
I am putting this here on Daily Kos, because of the thirty or so sites I follow, it has the best commenters when someone asks something like the title I gave to this...
"Today, 4th of July, if all we celebrated is soon gone, what life is next?"
This will be hard to read for many. If you force this diary to be removed by the moderators because of that, I understand, and will take the topic somewhere else, or just not ask about it again anywhere...
Stated bluntly, the life that will be next, for me, after November 5th if the voters have just launched American fascism, will be...
1. Beginning the next day, I will focus on still being able to share love and discussion and information, with the good persons that always have and will still make up a huge part of humanity, via freedom of speech, and via free reporting, until these get extinguished.
2. When that extinguishing is launched by the fascists, probably right away, it will be obvious by the shutting down of Daily Kos, and of all the other places I get sharing, discussion, and information. That is when the opposition I vowed about 55 years ago to carry out will happen.
I will strongly defy the extinguishment of free speech and the free press, by demonstrating loudly in my town.
If there are hundreds there, and millions nationwide, doing the same, meaning supression of these protests is impossible because there are too many and they are too large, then my life will continue.
However, if I feel alone when I do my opposition that I vowed many years ago, then I will go home, knowing I have outed myself as an opponent of the fascists.
Expecting arrest and imprisonment, probably very soon after my protests, I will end my life, in a peaceful way I have already planned, depriving them of their goal of ending my freedom.