When the home team loses a big match we the fans are disappointed and down but there is always tomorrow or next week for us get our mojo back. Not with trumps. The trumps are not like a competition on the field of play, they are a very real threat to our way of life. Politics isn't a trophy or championships to be celebrated. Politics is our very way of life. It is our society and how it will operate for some or all. The permutations of how a "civilized" society can exist have been littered throughout time for us to examine and as of this moment in time democracy, where all have a say in how we exist, has become the chosen political structure by most enlightened folks.
When a threat to our democracy like trumps unveils itself with no real clear alternative other than to regress into some form of authoritarian society like Russia and North Korea then we should be resolved to not let it happen. Like I said, this isn't some sort of sporting event where the winners and losers are all playing within the design of the game. No, this is politics where the worst of who we are can actually make the rest of us conform to them through a denial of our democratic rights. Their aim is to enrich themselves with our power and treasure while making us serve them at their whim. This isn't a competition between two fan bases, trumps politics is a pitting of themselves against all fan bases.
Sports can be a fun leisurely distraction from the hard tedious work of refining our democracy to become more perfect. In fighting against trumps, it isn't just an all out battle to save the principles of democracy but to actually surviving the authoritarian nature of trumps and their ilk. Where the idea of sports becomes so insignificant in scope because those trumps who control our politics have made sports and the fun of them seem childish and selfish. When the lives of many are being subjected to un democratic upheaval it is difficult to justify being ignorant and going about our lives immune from those facts. When the trumps are no more then and only then will we as a society be able to return to the enjoyment sports provides without having the blade of democratic severance dangling above our sport enjoying necks.
When a threat to our democracy like trumps unveils itself with no real clear alternative other than to regress into some form of authoritarian society like Russia and North Korea then we should be resolved to not let it happen. Like I said, this isn't some sort of sporting event where the winners and losers are all playing within the design of the game. No, this is politics where the worst of who we are can actually make the rest of us conform to them through a denial of our democratic rights. Their aim is to enrich themselves with our power and treasure while making us serve them at their whim. This isn't a competition between two fan bases, trumps politics is a pitting of themselves against all fan bases.
Sports can be a fun leisurely distraction from the hard tedious work of refining our democracy to become more perfect. In fighting against trumps, it isn't just an all out battle to save the principles of democracy but to actually surviving the authoritarian nature of trumps and their ilk. Where the idea of sports becomes so insignificant in scope because those trumps who control our politics have made sports and the fun of them seem childish and selfish. When the lives of many are being subjected to un democratic upheaval it is difficult to justify being ignorant and going about our lives immune from those facts. When the trumps are no more then and only then will we as a society be able to return to the enjoyment sports provides without having the blade of democratic severance dangling above our sport enjoying necks.
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