December 19, 2023 – A

People who are afraid to die
have never lived.
They have been dead all their life.
And know it.
And never had the courage
to say, "To hell with being dead!"
Because they were afraid to be alive.

Fascists fit nicely into this category. 
Fascists are afraid of everything.
Hence their infatuation with AR-15's,
and their need to kill everyone
not like they are.

And when they get that job nicely done,
they will splinter into groups
and kill each other.
Because they are afraid of everything.

The solution, of course,
is to grow up.
Which, of course,
is out of the question.
And so, the problem.

Growing up is the solution
to all problems everywhere.

Shut up.
Sit down.
Be quiet.
Grow up.

The four steps to enlightened living.

And the shortest self-help book
ever written.

Which never made anyone's 
Best Seller list.

Because there is a little bit
of fascism in all of us.

Which makes it so hard to uproot
and be done with.

The best of us are ashamed of that
and keep it under wraps.

The worst of us are proud of it
and would make Hitler blanche.

Shutting up.
Sitting down.
Being quiet.
And growing up.
Are the most anti-fascist things
we can do.

And are the foundation of democracy world-wide.

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