What Will You Do?

[erronis]

https://prospect.org/politics/2024-10-30-what-will-you-do-trump-wins/

Very powerful piece by Rick Perstein last year. And now this is the reality.
(Referenced by Digby: https://digbysblog.net/2025/01/20/what-will-you-do/)

What will you do if men in uniforms arrive in your neighborhood, and an immigrant neighbor gets a knock on the door and is led away in handcuffs?

Or if the uniforms are not police uniforms, and there is not even a knock?

What if the knock is for your daughter, and they’re coming for her because of a pill that she took? Will you open the door?

Or if your teenage granddaughter, alone and afraid, calls you and begs you to drive her to a state where abortion is legal? Your governor has signed a bill making such “abortion trafficking” illegal, stipulating a penalty of 15 years.

...

Many more "what will you do" situations. When due process breaks down.

[brush]

1. We'll be lucky if the "Stasi" don't swat us. We're in the trump police state now.

If you interfere with the trump's deportation cops, you're going too. Keep a low profile.

[liberal N proud]

2. If I see them coming...

I am going to shelter my neighbor. They are from Venezuela and better neighbors than all the others.

[stillcool]

3. I am so fortunate

to be at a place in my life where the past and the future are of no consequence. I'm all about now and doing the next right thing for me and my.