Bullhorn

Cliff Cash stands on top of a pickup truck cab yelling his lungs out into a bullhorn. He is leading a protest outside the offices of the Heritage foundation who are responsible for project 2025 and its manifesto for the dismantling of US democracy. He loses his voice as he drops truth bombs on the crowd around him and passerbys in the streets of Washington. 

He is a North Carolina good old boy liberal which at first blush sounds like an oxymoron. Well-informed and with a heart of gold, he first caught my eye through his standup comedy which pokes fun at MAGA and their penchant for voting against their own interests. 

I have been made keenly aware over my life of how much people are ill-informed and watching those from West Virginia being interviewed after recent devastating flooding brought it home in spades. They expressed confidence that their president cared for them even as he guts funding for FEMA and delivers minimal financial aid to only a few counties. It is very hard to break through their willful ignorance which has only been boosted through a steady diet of echo chamber right wing propaganda. 

The US and many parts of the world are on the verge of collapse. As markets tank and people fail to make ends meet, the population is being sold strawman narratives to pacify them. It is increasingly not working however as the fervent booing at recent GOP town halls attests. People are rightfully angry. 

Soon more people will take to the streets in protest as Hungary is now seeing against the corrupt oligarchy that Orban has created there. A contributor to project 2025's manifesto, he may find himself victim to the increasing rage of people disgusted by what authoritarian rule does to a nation. 

Four years like the first two months have been in the US will render the country fully unrecognizable. Whatever shreds of democracy still exist will be wiped away by a president who thinks that the executive branch need not listen to the other branches. Congress and the senate having already supplicated, once the courts go there will be nothing left to protect the people from tyranny.

It's time for more bullhorns.