Brian Almon: Someday *your* name will be remembered as one of the great essayists of our time. Your ability to juxtapose the past with the present and the future is uncanny.
Everyone should listen to Brian’s exceptional retelling of history. Everyone should get off the couch, stop playing video games or hiding their heads in the sand, and get to work saving our Republic.
Do not look to most of our current entrenched officials for help; you will be sorely disappointed. Idaho Congressman Mike Simpson and nearly two dozen other “Republicans” proved that with their votes against Jim Jordan as House Speaker this week. These wimpy elected officials are just the latest examples of why *we the people* must wake up NOW before *we the people* are put to sleep permanently.
A well-informed citizenry is as important as a well-armed citenry. If you share Brian’s articles and subscribe to his Substack and others of similar quality on many topics, you’ll be doing a lot.
But you can do much more! Talk to your neighbors and elected officials in person (even in parking lots and school hallways). Make phone calls. Write letters to the Editor. Comment on Substacks. Share information that doesn’t come from mainstream media and social media.
Whatever you do, avoid Googling something and believing the “oh, that’s a right-wing conspiracy theory” assertions in the first page of links. That’s what lazy mainstream and social media journalists do. Instead, ask where those assertions are coming from and who benefits.
Think independently. Look deeper. Read widely. Avoid rushing to judgement after reading breaking news, which often is inaccurate, misleading, or meant to induce fear and outrage. Work together. Our country IS worth saving.
Brian Almon: Someday *your* name will be remembered as one of the great essayists of our time. Your ability to juxtapose the past with the present and the future is uncanny.
Everyone should listen to Brian’s exceptional retelling of history. Everyone should get off the couch, stop playing video games or hiding their heads in the sand, and get to work saving our Republic.
Do not look to most of our current entrenched officials for help; you will be sorely disappointed. Idaho Congressman Mike Simpson and nearly two dozen other “Republicans” proved that with their votes against Jim Jordan as House Speaker this week. These wimpy elected officials are just the latest examples of why *we the people* must wake up NOW before *we the people* are put to sleep permanently.
A well-informed citizenry is as important as a well-armed citenry. If you share Brian’s articles and subscribe to his Substack and others of similar quality on many topics, you’ll be doing a lot.
But you can do much more! Talk to your neighbors and elected officials in person (even in parking lots and school hallways). Make phone calls. Write letters to the Editor. Comment on Substacks. Share information that doesn’t come from mainstream media and social media.
Whatever you do, avoid Googling something and believing the “oh, that’s a right-wing conspiracy theory” assertions in the first page of links. That’s what lazy mainstream and social media journalists do. Instead, ask where those assertions are coming from and who benefits.
Think independently. Look deeper. Read widely. Avoid rushing to judgement after reading breaking news, which often is inaccurate, misleading, or meant to induce fear and outrage. Work together. Our country IS worth saving.