Musashi v The Supreme Court
I don't have a terribly deep reserve for humanity at the moment, but for everyone so comfortable on that fence, because; "At least it's not ME in the barrel" - listen up.
IT WILL NOT STOP HERE.
In the martial arts, this is what we call "Attack Momentum", once the attacker has gained forward momentum, and has you stepping backwards, your chances of recovery dwindle exponentially by the second.
Because, at that point, you're no longer a combatant.
You're a pedestrian.
But there's one moment, right at the start, called "Tai Tai no Sen", from Miyamoto Musashi's Book of Five Rings:
Taking the initiative at the initiative. Circumventing an ambush or sudden attack from the enemy by taking the initiative and attacking in full force, as they have begun to move. In simplistic terms; "They begin to move, you have already finished".
This strategy is the most difficult to achieve, because it requires immediate, unwavering commitment to fight, without hesitation or uncertainty. They move to attack, you've already finished before they get even halfway there.
So, those with the wisdom to hear - understand this.
This is the onset of the attack, and it will not stop here.
They will come after Griswold (the right to birth control), absolutely, and probably Obergefell after that (if not right along with it), and allow states to deny queer people the right to marry.
Then Lawrence, so they can imprison the queer people for allegedly having queer sex with each other.
They will uphold a state right to deny trans people the same hormones and puberty blockers that cis people need and use.
The state will decide what medicine you can take.
When Lawrence is overturned and gay sex is illegal? They'll have a neat little list of queers to go after, right there in the marriage license records. Queers with no legal defense.
Because once you dehumanize a group, killing them isn't a moral outrage - it's pest control.
Maybe you've heard of Lawrence v. Texas, the 2003 Supreme Court case that declared anti-sodomy laws unconstitutional?
What a lot of you people fail to realize is that the Texas penal code STILL defines oral and anal sex as "deviate sexual intercourse". They just need an outlet to get the party started. And remember, this is the same state that has proposed bounties on the heads of women seeking or having gotten an abortion, doctors who perform them, and anyone who aids them along the way.
And all the children Gay couples have adopted, that Conservatives claim to be oh-so concerned about, will get shipped off to the nearest religious kiddie fuck-farm, currently labeled as "Children's Homes".
And once they get that far forward, it won't be long. You think "Whites Only" signs are alarmist, they'll never go THAT far.
They've already declared that to be their intention.
They will indeed "go that far". They've blatantly stated as much. Interracial marriage? They threw that on the table three weeks ago.
They'll gut environmental protections and try to defang any governmental regulation that some corporation might object to.
And then, we won't have a livable planet much longer. Not that it's in great shape anyway, if you've been paying attention the past several years, or tried to go boating in Lake Mead recently.
I'm not interested in the "Hillary tried to warn us" mantra - we dropped the ball, and let them walk all over the carpet with dogshit on their shoes. Finger pointing right now is only a distraction.
The best time to fix all this was in the past.
The next best time is now.
Right Fucking Now.
We don't avoid those things by refusing to fight. They're still going to try to make all that happen. Republicans have already tilted the electoral maps, voter suppression policies, legal challenges and whatever coup plans they have, and they're going to use them anyway even if the Democrats did absolutely nothing.
But just like in 2016 and 2020, the more we turn out, the more we mitigate their evil. But it has to be now, at the single initiative. If they get the next step, it will be twice as hard for us to fight back.
The midterms are Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022. All 435 U.S. House seats and 34 of the 100 Senate seats are on the ballot.
It's not theirs yet.
But we have to do it together.
If you think Rome wasn't built in a day, ask a historian when it fell.
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“The body of a rock is the state of an unmoving mind. When you have mastered this way of strategy you can suddenly make your body like a rock, and ten thousand things cannot touch you.
You will not be moved."
Miyamoto Musashi,
The Book of Five Rings
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