Imagine a world where the threat of ICE agents at polling places in the 2026 midterms — whispered, floated, trial-ballooned — doesn’t scare people into silence but wakes them up.
I'm with you Evan! Solid vision that we all can work to achieve. Each of us, in whatever word, dollar, deed we can to make the imagined vision(s) reality in November 2026 and 2028!!
They really should provide a 'love' button for these posts. Evan, your words are a prayer. Not the kind whispered on your knees, but one shouted from the pulpit, the rafters, the mountaintop. May your prayer come true, and so be it.
What Have WE Become: Return To The Horror of Slavery
Last year’s documentary The Alabama Solution(https://bit.ly/3OYa8eP) displays the cruel, ugly, and brutal depravity of the ADOC(Alabama Dept of Corrections) microculture that honors and protects the vicious retribution by prison guards Through prisoner cellphone exposure of the system the DOJ has ineffectively tried to intervene, Alabama’s governor Kay Ivey has stonewalled any system reform Thousands of inmates die every year and system becomes chattel slavery all becoming of a deep South state The “privileged white plantation owners” showing no human decency of inmates ultimately describing the dark soul of the deep South
But this sounds eerily familiar to what Aldolf Eichmann/Miller and Cheeto have created with ICE bludgeoning minority groups who have no resources to defend themselves So the “privileged white Christian Nationalists” of the CNPP(Christian Nationalist Pedo Party) have created the same immoral and vicious system at the Federal level Different people same brutal result with innocent asylum seekers placed in inhuman concentration camps/prisons
So what have Southerners become to turn a blind eye to such animal behavior? And what have segments of American society become to not voice public outcry to inhuman behavior? Is this what WE the People have become as a nation? Such behavior needs to constantly be shown up to the face of gutless cowards who condone and seek pleasure in such atrocities to fellow human beings
I don't think most people understand in their gut what's going on. I once watched a film about the chattel system of agricultural slave labor via the prisons in the south and began sobbing halfway through it. I was at the home of a friend, a professor at Johns Hopkins and a more or less okay guy, but he actually recoiled at my response and accused me of 'emotional lability' under the influence of alcohol. (I'd had one glass of white wine.) It's been decades since then, but the memory is seared in my mind. How could anyone take one look at the cruelty and not want to scream and cry out? I don't live in the south, and wouldn't live in the south any more, although I was born there. The legacy of slavery is so deep, so dark, so thick and resistant that it's like a plague. I give to the SPLC, and will until I die. Wish I could do more. Thanks for holding a light up for us all.
thanks for relating your personal experiences....puts meat on the bones of ideology The Southern Gothic is a great story of how Christianity was coopted for the dark fascist side
I think about the more than thirty thousand young Iranians that so far lost their lives in persuing their Big Dream: to be liberated from the terror of the Islamic State. Too many westerners have become calculting citizens weighing the con's against the pro's. How much will I lose if and when...?
Give the people their bread and games to keep them satisfied, said Ceaser to his commanders. A citizen with a full tummy is not going to fight. Westerners including Americans, are overall reasonably satisfied with their lives conditions. Freedom is a relative way to measure personal satisfaction. Democracy is nice as long as it goes their way. If not, they're open to have it replaced by a "less democratic" system.
The Iranians do not prefer death over having to live their lives as slaves. They don't seek martyrdom. They are however willing to fight even at the risk of getting arrested, tortured, raped, shot and/or killed. They have experienced life without freedom, without real democracy. They were born in it. Westerners have not. Their lives were mostly built around a hedonistic believe system.
I ones heard a Dutch priest complain about the complatency of western youth and their loss of faith in God. 'If they suffered more they would again long to be surrounded by the grace of God', he said. That's why religion always works well with the poor, the suffering and the ignorant.
I'd rather place my hope and trust in the strength and selfworth of the subject as part of a collective, that relies on its concentrated determination and strength; the same way the brave young Iranians are doing, despite everything.
All of your beautiful imaginings here can be made real. But not through the strategies that you and all others on our side are now following. We are fighting on a battlefield that will not permit our victory; but we could shift our battle onto a field on which we can win.
I therefore beg you to go to www.thelastbesthope.xyz ,and at least skim the first few pages of the essay that you'll find there. If you do then I think we'll be talking further.
An extraordinary proposition. Doable. Righteous. Necessary. You hit all the soft spots on what ails this nation's governance and give concrete remedies to tackle. Imagine the awakening, the commitment and energy pouring forth as we perfect the blue print and get down to business.
The mind is the builder. Hopefully everyone will imagine and it will BE TRUE.
Well done! At this point, we don't have to imagine what happens if we do nothing and allow the drift to continue. We're living it.
I'm with you Evan! Solid vision that we all can work to achieve. Each of us, in whatever word, dollar, deed we can to make the imagined vision(s) reality in November 2026 and 2028!!
They really should provide a 'love' button for these posts. Evan, your words are a prayer. Not the kind whispered on your knees, but one shouted from the pulpit, the rafters, the mountaintop. May your prayer come true, and so be it.
Accountability will require a dramatic institutional and system change with harsh penalties that are nonexistent today
What Have WE Become: Return To The Horror of Slavery
Last year’s documentary The Alabama Solution(https://bit.ly/3OYa8eP) displays the cruel, ugly, and brutal depravity of the ADOC(Alabama Dept of Corrections) microculture that honors and protects the vicious retribution by prison guards Through prisoner cellphone exposure of the system the DOJ has ineffectively tried to intervene, Alabama’s governor Kay Ivey has stonewalled any system reform Thousands of inmates die every year and system becomes chattel slavery all becoming of a deep South state The “privileged white plantation owners” showing no human decency of inmates ultimately describing the dark soul of the deep South
But this sounds eerily familiar to what Aldolf Eichmann/Miller and Cheeto have created with ICE bludgeoning minority groups who have no resources to defend themselves So the “privileged white Christian Nationalists” of the CNPP(Christian Nationalist Pedo Party) have created the same immoral and vicious system at the Federal level Different people same brutal result with innocent asylum seekers placed in inhuman concentration camps/prisons
So what have Southerners become to turn a blind eye to such animal behavior? And what have segments of American society become to not voice public outcry to inhuman behavior? Is this what WE the People have become as a nation? Such behavior needs to constantly be shown up to the face of gutless cowards who condone and seek pleasure in such atrocities to fellow human beings
I don't think most people understand in their gut what's going on. I once watched a film about the chattel system of agricultural slave labor via the prisons in the south and began sobbing halfway through it. I was at the home of a friend, a professor at Johns Hopkins and a more or less okay guy, but he actually recoiled at my response and accused me of 'emotional lability' under the influence of alcohol. (I'd had one glass of white wine.) It's been decades since then, but the memory is seared in my mind. How could anyone take one look at the cruelty and not want to scream and cry out? I don't live in the south, and wouldn't live in the south any more, although I was born there. The legacy of slavery is so deep, so dark, so thick and resistant that it's like a plague. I give to the SPLC, and will until I die. Wish I could do more. Thanks for holding a light up for us all.
thanks for relating your personal experiences....puts meat on the bones of ideology The Southern Gothic is a great story of how Christianity was coopted for the dark fascist side
Great piece of writing in service of great ideas.
I could not not choose.
I think about the more than thirty thousand young Iranians that so far lost their lives in persuing their Big Dream: to be liberated from the terror of the Islamic State. Too many westerners have become calculting citizens weighing the con's against the pro's. How much will I lose if and when...?
Give the people their bread and games to keep them satisfied, said Ceaser to his commanders. A citizen with a full tummy is not going to fight. Westerners including Americans, are overall reasonably satisfied with their lives conditions. Freedom is a relative way to measure personal satisfaction. Democracy is nice as long as it goes their way. If not, they're open to have it replaced by a "less democratic" system.
The Iranians do not prefer death over having to live their lives as slaves. They don't seek martyrdom. They are however willing to fight even at the risk of getting arrested, tortured, raped, shot and/or killed. They have experienced life without freedom, without real democracy. They were born in it. Westerners have not. Their lives were mostly built around a hedonistic believe system.
I ones heard a Dutch priest complain about the complatency of western youth and their loss of faith in God. 'If they suffered more they would again long to be surrounded by the grace of God', he said. That's why religion always works well with the poor, the suffering and the ignorant.
I'd rather place my hope and trust in the strength and selfworth of the subject as part of a collective, that relies on its concentrated determination and strength; the same way the brave young Iranians are doing, despite everything.
Il novecento
How can we translate this uplifting imagination into reality?
Hello Mr. Fields,
All of your beautiful imaginings here can be made real. But not through the strategies that you and all others on our side are now following. We are fighting on a battlefield that will not permit our victory; but we could shift our battle onto a field on which we can win.
I therefore beg you to go to www.thelastbesthope.xyz ,and at least skim the first few pages of the essay that you'll find there. If you do then I think we'll be talking further.
EVAN: you’re on fire!! 🔥. Loving it!!
YES YES YES. BRILLIANT WORDING
An extraordinary proposition. Doable. Righteous. Necessary. You hit all the soft spots on what ails this nation's governance and give concrete remedies to tackle. Imagine the awakening, the commitment and energy pouring forth as we perfect the blue print and get down to business.
Imagine people caring enough to get out and vote.