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Saturday, October 25, 2025

Was that Joy and Unbridled Happiness Real? Can We Carry it Forward? Yes, We Can...

This conversation, published this morning, between Paul Krugman and Erica Chenoweth is just the tonic I needed: https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/talking-with-erica-chenoweth...

Maybe you need it too? 

Remember that Joy & Unbridled Happiness you felt standing in the middle of that NO KINGS rally & protest on October 18? That was "cognitive liberation," surging thru your body & consciousness. You and so many other folks could feel it. It is essential & important, and it is a pathway forward to throwing off the oppressors: 

"a few things happen at the same time; the first is that there’s a collective understanding that the situation can be changed. There’s a collective understanding that it’s intolerable and there’s a collective understanding that each individual must do something about it, but also can do something about it. Then there’s an understanding that now that we all know this information, there’s no going back to the previous status quo where it felt like the situation was permanent, only going to get worse, and there’s nothing we can do about it."

Yes. HOPE. It lives in the hearts and heads of the folks standing against Tyranny. Folks can throw off the shackles of Tyranny & Authorianism. How to do it? People Power. Really. Galvanizing folks to stand up and oppose, to demand change. If enough us gather together as a united front, we truly can change the world. There is history and data to back that up. Not a pipe-dream. 

The resistance is alive and well in America. From all walks of life. That is what NO KINGS showed us all. We need to continue, "disciplined nonviolence," yes. We change the world via peaceful protest! Yes. It can be done, it has been done all over the world many times in the history of humanity.

"Here’s something that will make you feel hopeful. We have more information, more history, more knowledge, more perspective, more manuals, more guide books, more research, into how people mobilize effectively against authoritarianism than anyone in human history has ever had."

Be sure to read the whole thing. My take: "A change of consciousness can happen in an instant." It is the first step in forging a new reality. Yes. Brothers & Sisters, we shall overcome...

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