Happy New Year, dear ones--may 2018 kick the asses of 2015, 2016, and 2017, which all sucked ass!

Treason's greedings and happy new year, dear ones!

We are the ones we've been waiting for.

Hopefully, we've all had a good rest (myself included) and are ready to take names, take down, and take no prisoners in the 2018 fight to save America.

Our democracy and our lives are at stake.

Republicans have proven yet again that--not only based on our skin color but also on our wealth--they want us to live like slaves, in poverty and squalor, without even the comforts of modern science and medicine. They want us to live in desperation and hate, attacking each other instead of themselves, whose greed is the root of everything evil in this country today. They want us to forget what it's like to live in a civil society that takes care of its own while welcoming strangers, treating humans and the planet humanely because we recognize that everyone has a part to play and something wonderful to contribute to the welfare of the whole.

They want us to forget what it was like a few short decades ago when the rich paid their fair share--90% of their wages--so that we could have world-class roads, schools, research, and hospitals. They want us to forget what it was like when society honored its contract with its workers, either paying them up front or giving them a pension in the future for wages withheld today...when labor unions and the middle class were strong...when Americans could afford to retire in peace and sufficiency if not plenty, owning their own homes outright...when children were taught the critical thinking and life skills they needed in school to succeed in the workforce as adults...when families could afford the time and money to take summer vacations and long weekends away from home traveling and learning about our land and our world.

If you follow me on Twitter, you know that I favor repealing Citizens United, reinstating the Fairness Doctrine plus delicensing and other penalties for news media knowingly publishing lies, public-only financing for elections, reinstituting accountability and justice that prosecutes the rich for destroying lives more than it persecutes poor people of color for petty crimes, and reinstating Ike's 90% top tax rate but on all income--not just wages but every penny that crosses the palms of the rich.

You know that I favor confiscating every penny from the rich traitors working to destroy us all--not just American society but the Earth's ability to support human life--from the Kochs to the Mercers to Sheldon Adelson to FOX News to the NRA to every rich Republican sucking Putin's dick (and tRUmp's, if they can find it). We must make a harsh example not of all rich people but of these traitors, who must be punished. That money was stolen from us to mortgage our future, and I dunno about you, but I want it back!

You know that I favor turning the traitors' companies into worker-run co-ops, prosecuting every single traitor for treason, and either hanging them all by the neck until dead per the Constitution or exiling them for life from this country--penniless--and let them see how they do.

And for the rest of the haters and wannabe-killers--those whose crimes haven't yet risen to treason--I favor an internal exchange program in which, for at least one year without pay or benefits, they labor among and help those they condemn and wish (but haven't acted) to kill among us...immigrants, people of color, LGBTQ+, young and poor women, and so on. They must learn sympathy, empathy, compassion, and brotherhood if they are to remain here.

We CAN build a better society out of the ashes they're handing us--we can, and we must for the sake of simple humanity.

Again, let me remind you that there's nothing tRUmp can do that would make the greedy gropey oily oligarch Putinist predatory pedophiles rebuke or act against him in any way--remember, Putin hacked not only the DNC but the RNC, and you can bet that the RNC was drowning in blackmailable filth. Add to that the carrots of cash from Putin, the Mercers, the Kochs, Sheldon Adelson, and the NRA, and you have a GOP that's willfully complicit in tRUmp's treason...only too happy to dismantle our once-sovereign nation and turn us into a client state of Russia with 323 million serfs.

In other words, we're on our own.

Saving America is up to us and us alone.

Fortunately, there are MILLIONS of us.

Fortunately, we outnumber the bastards millions to one.

Fortunately, we are up to the task.

Let's roll!

- Dot Calm's shadow