Although the Savior Self has avowed to remain “apolitical” in our discussions, politics are an inescapable part of life. We are currently watching numerous atrocities unfold around the world, from ongoing genocides to bloody wars, to the de facto rise of overt fascism in the United States. Of course, the United States has played a role in these other worldwide atrocities for countless years, long before the current regime. We have inflicted immeasurable pain, suffering, and devastation across foreign lands since before we were even a country, from slave trades to indigenous genocides to military imperialism to economic imperialism to CIA coups to wars of terror and drone strikes.
America has, since its inception, been a shameful country that falls far short of the lofty rhetoric of the Founding Fathers. That our heinous crimes have been tolerated by more civilized countries (many of whom have blood on their own hands, make no mistake) is equally shameful.
Now, we are once again watching the atrocities unfold on our own soil. No longer are these crimes against humanity being perpetrated in faraway lands with plausible deniability or limited media coverage. They are happening here, every day, with multiple camera angles capturing the complete descent into a police state where masked, armed thugs kidnap people— including American citizens— and disappear them with no due process and no consequences. It is not one or two; it is now easily hundreds of these occurrences and the pace of these events is increasing every day. They can no longer claim that it is an accident; this is by design.
Every single day that this is allowed to continue is another step towards the same evil that occurred in Nazi Germany. What could once be dismissed as alarmist overreaction is now happening, and it is indisputable for anyone that cares to look for it.
As we wrote in On Pacifism, Passivism, and Militancy, it is no longer enough to abandon this system, if abandonment is even possible anymore. Fascists do not leave much space for anarchists, after all.
But even if it was possible to ignore these horrors and exclude ourselves from the system, it is not enough to do so. By whatever definition of morality you have, we must directly oppose what is happening now:
- If you believe in democracy, you must stand up and defend the rule of law and due process
- If you believe in liberty, you cannot allow this militarized police state to grow
- If you believe in America’s superiority, you must oppose these Gestapo-like tactics
- If you are Christian… hoo boy, you should be against everything that is happening right now
- If you are a humanist, you must fight to reduce the needless human suffering that is being perpetrated
- If you only care about yourself and/or your loved ones, you must still fight what is happening because you will not be spared. History has shown, time and again, that even those on the side of fascism are eventually exterminated out of paranoia, purity tests, or any of a dozen other reasons.
Morality demands this. Any morality. What is happening now cannot be tolerated. Every day that we go about our lives and gasp in horror, the horror only grows. Every day that we plot to leave this country and seek asylum elsewhere, the moral strength of this country shrinks. Every day that we look to our feckless elected officials to magically fix this for us, they remain complicit and more and more people have their lives ruined, their children traumatized.
It is no longer enough to abandon this system. It is not enough to condone it while remaining uninvolved. We must tear it down. By any means necessary.
