It is starting. We have lost in the political arena to gerrymandering, voter suppression, and brazen cheating such as candidates running as Dems, then flip-flopping to GOP upon “winning.”

Bathroom bills, drag bans, gender affirming care made a felony. Trans folks in TN hiding in their houses fearing arrest on sight for defying new “cross-dressing” laws. Fears of mass suicide.

Now we have Treasure Coast, FL cancelling their Pride Parade and limiting their Pride festival to spaces that can be turned into 21 and over with ID spaces some of us never use.

This is no longer theoretical, it is no longer debates in legislative chambers.

It is starting, the peaceful debate in echoing halls is over. NOW is the time to resist! We can run, or we can fight. If we run the Enemy has national ambitions. They will attempt to enforce interstate warrants against fleeing parents etc, following the model of the Fugitive Slave Act (which played a big role in starting the last civil war).

After that, DeSantis intends to run for President. Here a last chance for peace exists as thr GOP is abandoning him for Trump as majorities reject the pogroms. If Trump in turn goes to prison he may lose by a margin too lopsided for another coup attempt. Fash states of course may secede in this case, question then becomes a question of whether the rest of the US declares war on the seceding states.

To get peace a lot of things have to go exactly right.