POWERLESS

If you feel disoriented by what’s happening in America, that’s not a flaw in your thinking. It’s evidence that you’re still thinking.

 

You’re not crazy, but the world feels that way right now, doesn’t it?

You were told that truth matters. That democracy is sacred. That justice is blind.

 

But now you watch lies win elections, cruelty become policy, and power serve only itself.

 

This dissonance, between what you were promised and what you now see, is not confusion.

It’s clarity. Painful, yes. But necessary.

 

Authoritarians survive not by force, but by fatigue.

They don’t need your loyalty. Only your surrender.

 

Not your silence, but your belief that speaking won’t matter.

But here’s the truth they hope you never rediscover:

 

Power was never something they owned.

It was something you gave them.

And it’s something you can take back.

Not with blind optimism. But with informed resistance.

 

Not with unity at any cost, but with a moral refusal to normalize the obscene.

 

Educate yourself. Do the work.

Speak up.

Organize. Show up. Bring friends.

Bring cookies. Make more friends.

 

Because the future belongs to those who cannot be gaslit by the past.