The Beginning of the Endgame
The worse it gets, the more we need a peaceful General Strike Sit-In everywhere
I don't know what you had planned for the summer. Maybe beach trips, barbecues, or family reunions. Maybe a much-needed vacation or just a little rest. Whatever it was, cancel it. Shit has hit the fan.
This summer, we face history itself.
Los Angeles is under siege—not from a foreign enemy, but from our own government. The National Guard patrols the streets, military checkpoints dot neighborhoods, and the shadow of martial law is no longer an abstract threat—it’s our chilling new reality.
Worse, the way the Guard has been called up is legally questionable and raises its own concerns.
What we’ve feared since Trump retook office five months ago has come to pass. Project 2025, the meticulously detailed roadmap laid out by Trump’s allies, has come to its pivotal hinge point: invoking the Insurrection Act to establish a military-backed dictatorship.
Let's be explicitly clear about what this means. Project 2025 is no secret. Drafted by Trump-aligned think tanks like the Heritage Foundation, it outlines a step-by-step playbook for dismantling democratic institutions and consolidating authoritarian power. Since day one of his second presidency, Trump has consistently stoked division, provoked unrest, and openly discussed invoking extraordinary powers. The chaos we see now in LA isn’t spontaneous—it’s orchestrated. It’s precisely what Trump’s inner circle wanted.
But history doesn't have to play out this way.
We, the people, have a profound choice to make. Violent resistance is exactly what Trump wants. It will justify harsher crackdowns, tighter military control, and broader suspensions of civil liberties. Violence only feeds authoritarianism, handing our future over to tyranny on a silver platter.
Instead, there is another path. We must embrace nonviolent resistance en masse. History shows that nonviolent, peaceful protests, when conducted broadly and consistently, cannot be indefinitely suppressed without backlash. Look to India under British colonial rule, where Gandhi’s peaceful revolution toppled an empire. Remember East Germany, 1989, when the peaceful demonstrations in Leipzig and Berlin dismantled the Berlin Wall and a seemingly invincible authoritarian regime. And recall our own painful past at Kent State in 1970. Yes, innocent lives were lost when Guardsmen opened fire on protesting students. But that tragedy sparked outrage, led to prosecution, and galvanized millions more to stand against state-sponsored brutality.
Today, we must summon similar courage and moral clarity. Imagine a scenario: every citizen capable of safely reaching the streets in Los Angeles—and other cities that might soon find themselves targeted—peacefully sitting down in place, an unyielding, silent protest. A sit-in of unprecedented scale, peaceful, firm, and undeniable. In every city, large and small, citizens peacefully sitting, united in a general strike that halts economic activity, sends an unmistakable message, and demands that the government acknowledge our rights and freedoms.
Trump and his regime understand the power of violence—they thrive on confrontation. But how will they respond to silence, peace, and solidarity? What happens when the entire economy stalls, not because of riots but because we collectively decide to withhold our labor, our consumption, and our cooperation? How does the administration justify using force against people sitting peacefully, arms linked, refusing to move?
Our power lies precisely there, in collective, peaceful resistance. The moral force of millions of nonviolent Americans standing up to protect democracy will reverberate around the world, drawing international condemnation and internal opposition, even from within the ranks of the Guard itself.
Legal and moral justifications are on our side. The right to peacefully assemble, protest, and dissent is fundamental, embedded clearly in the First Amendment of the Constitution. Even the invocation of the Insurrection Act does not erase these rights; it merely tests our commitment to uphold them. Morally, history has never favored the tyrant. Oppressive regimes crumble under the sustained weight of peaceful moral resistance. This is our strength; this is our weapon.
Next Saturday, June 14th, Trump is holding a military parade for his birthday. Wouldn’t it chap his ass if instead of watching, all TV news crews were covering the growing Sit In General Strike in every city in the country?
So brace yourself. This is our moment. History books will record this summer as either the beginning of the end of American democracy or as the moment ordinary people rose courageously and peacefully to reclaim their country.
It is scary—of course it is. But let that fear sharpen your resolve. This is a hinge point, a pivotal moment. We are the ones living this chapter. Let it not be said we stayed silent, fearful, or apathetic when democracy was on the line. Let future generations read that we took the streets not in rage but in dignity, that we refused violence but never compromised our demands for freedom and justice.
This summer vacation is canceled. But we are not powerless. We have each other. We have our voices, our courage, and our resolve. We will not go quietly into the dark night of dictatorship.
Sit down. Link arms. Resist peacefully.
This is the beginning of the endgame.
Let’s make sure we’re the ones who decide how it ends.
Yes. And as you say, we can do this peacefully. We are demonstrating for freedom, we're not protesting. The villains are on their side. We won't let them change history. Thanks for writing!
Keep on doing
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