Then what?

A failure to plan is a plan for failure.

This was initially a note and probably deserves more attention.

and probably some typos fixed, dramatic spacing and a few more thoughts as I wrote it on my phone

Say the regime is toppled. Trump is removed in a way they must all go.

Then what?

Any demands?

Do we have a president? Interim? Kamala? Special election?

With the electoral college? Gerrymandering? Accountability?

Can we just have a more authentic representative coalition?

Then what?

Business is usual? Repeal everything? From how many administrations?

How do we rid ourselves of nazis so they don’t fester again?

How do we get our data wiped? How do we stop the surveillance?

How do we redirect military funds to the people?

The whole system needs to be fixed. It allowed something to happen that can never happen again.

What about lobbyists, and corporate interests?

Our situation has revealed a lot of nasty secrets about law enforcement, the Supreme Court, Republicans and Democrats. Which do you trust to clean house and make this right once the current threat is gone?

I trust none of them. They delivered us here and didn’t go hungry doing so.

Are we going to let archaic and disproportionately applied process get in the way of progress?

We probably need a new constitution that rights the wrongs and clarifies points in the original. A contract between the people and government. Employment details for the latter. Trust must be rebuilt.

State laws must be brought in line with universal rights that cannot be denied. Problematic old laws scrubbed from the books now that we’ve seen them applied again.

Children need rights. Women need reproductive care. Everyone needs UBI if only temporarily (like PUA) to recover from decades of financial abuse due to greedy corporations.

We need to tax the pants off the rich. We don’t need any more trust fund brats.

We need to find where they’ve hidden everyone, shut down for-profit prisons and medical at least.

Accepting less is selling out to our comfort threshold, without solving the world problems we are actively causing and contributing to. They want us fighting other people’s wars so we don’t think about these things. Misdirection is for magic tricks, not genocides.

It’s better to think through requirements before negotiating. Otherwise we may agree to something we don’t want, while overlooking something vital. Like how capitalism isn’t sustainable.

There’s a lot of cult thinking to undo all around. A lot of critical thinking needs to start.

It’s important to be clear that draining the swamp does nothing to prevent it from simply refilling.

Project 2025 was a plan. What is ours? Who is architecting it? Who is vetting it? Who will decide? When? How?

Who is the Project Manager on this? We are all stakeholders and testers. Sign off (consent) is key. We have to care enough, be invested enough, or the same damn things will happen again. This isn’t our first rodeo or witch hunt, after all.

It will take hard work, vigilance, and cooperation, not simply accepting what was decided for us by people profiting from misleading us.

Otherwise we’re just hitting the snooze bar and leaving our children in a system that we KNOW is designed to break people. I do not accept that for my children or yours.

It won’t just “happen.” That’s the old way that brought us to this lowly state. We can do better. We are overwhelmed by design.

The accountability we seek isn’t just owed to us from lawmakers or regimes. We chose to outsource because it’s easier to blame someone else than do the work ourselves. What’s worse, we bullied others to do the same to justify our own inaction.

WE ALL need to do better. Starting now.

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