Get a gun? That's your advice?

WELL, if you do, stop drinking get in shape and keep your head clear despite all the temptations to bury your sorrows in intoxication or fantasies.   It was make believe, "reality TV" that gave us Trump to start with.   I'd immediately stop buying anything from Amazon or subscribing to the goddamned New York Times.  If you do buy a gun, get a competent shooter to show you how to shoot it and practice.  If you're going to take a shot you'd better be accurate.  

I was serious when I said that American democracy won't come back in any form until a majority of Americans really believe that they are to do to others what they would have done to them,  that they are to do for the least among us what they would for The Lord, herself.  

I wouldn't give a cent to the ACLU, I was dismayed when that was the reaction of so many at the start of Trump I.   They had an enormous role in this, mostly in getting the media the right to lie with impunity.  They have not learned a thing from the past fifty years as they've had a hand in creating just about every tool the fascists have used to get us here.  All in the name of the goddamned First Amendment.  I was dead serious about its serious faults and shortcomings.   Any money given to them is wasted, the courts will not protect us, they were among the biggest enablers of Trump.   Who will get away with sedition, insurrection, certainly of selling the United States to Putin and, I have no doubt, will now funnel every secret held by our military and domestic security establishments to the dictator-billionaires.   The Supreme Court and many lower courts have given him a green light to do that.   Harvard, Yale,  Princeton law,  etc. where so much of that ACLU crap comes from have been cultivating this since Joseph Story issued the Prigg decision - which is as fine an example of any of how the law isn't only an ass, it's an amoral asshole more times than not. 

Read the Psalms, especially the Psalms of grief and complaint.   You'll find more to go on there  then you will from the pundits and the on-screen lawyers, much as you might want to believe them.   Look at Jeremiah who is as relevant as anyone.   Democracy is in exile, democrats are in survival mode, those of Color and minority status most of all.  As I said, we should learn from them.