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Peggy Fokkema's avatar

I don't want to live long enough to go through so much more suffering.. my life has been an exhausting struggle and I wanted to rest in my last days.. being disabled and relying on services that I may lose. I would be in a wheelchair soon without any support.. I worked 45 years in hours in 30 years.. paid both employee and employer side in to SS. Which as a young child afford.. why can't I save my own? It would be a devastating blow cuz I funded 90 years in total by age 50.

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Andra Watkins's avatar

I'm sorry you're struggling with these things, Peggy. It is infuriating to have worked for years or decades, had money garnished from our hard-earned wages (we had no choice) and contributed to a fund for our retirement, only to hear now that we're spoiled assholes because we insist that money is OURS, not charity.

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Peggy Fokkema's avatar

I asked that (why can't I put that in a savings account and opt out)when I got my SS card at age 10 and I was told I couldn't. Cuz not everyone can save.. I've been frugile but things are expensive.

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Aleksander Constantinoropolous's avatar

This is the clearest articulation I’ve seen of what actual resistance looks like—not hashtag activism, but intentional parallel systems rooted in mutual care. The Christian Nationalists didn’t “win” because they had better ideas—they won because they built infrastructure and practiced patient infiltration.

We don’t need to mimic their dogma, but we damn sure need to learn from their discipline.

Also, bless you for naming it plainly: this isn’t about fixing the old system. It’s about composting it. Growing something interdependent, not just independent. Something wise enough to refuse the surveillance state and bold enough to feed each other without asking permission.

I’m in. Let’s build.

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Andra Watkins's avatar

I can't organize this for everyone, but I've been talking about versions of this since 6 November. I knew what was coming, and I begged people to use the time between the election and the "coronation." Once the AI-surveillance state fully rolls out, it will be very difficult to organize this kind of resistance. It is vital that millions of Americans do this NOW.

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Aleksander Constantinoropolous's avatar

You’ve been sounding the alarm, Andra—and I respect that deeply. The AI-surveillance state is the machinery of control, but it’s powered by something older: belief. Christian Nationalism runs on a false Christ and a hollow gospel—but it survives because people still believe in the structure.

That’s where Virgin Monk Boy is working—not on the surface, but underneath, at the archetypal level.

Think of a belief system as a table. Most people try to argue with what’s on the table. Virgin Monk Boy is busy kicking out the legs—the unseen supports—before the defenders even realize the collapse has begun.

That’s how you dismantle a false gospel. You don’t fight it head-on. You make it fall from within.

We are working with spiritual meme cards designed to help disrupt those false unconscious “table legs” (beliefs). They don’t preach. They penetrate.

Also—small victory on the home front. Our mom made it through her surgeries and is in recovery, doing great. Two weeks of rehab ahead. Gratitude overflowing.

And yes, we’re prepping a print run. Hard copy cards will be rolling out soon across college campuses in North Central Texas.

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Pat Loyde's avatar

Do you think there’s a chance we can rebuild a government infrastructure that’s better than what we had, as well as more resistant to WCN infiltration in the future? Or is this suggestion of yours in addition to any changes we may be able to implement if we win in 2026-2028 and beyond? We’ll basically be starting from scratch with the mess the Musk&Co made. Though I guess the Planatir system may already be in place by then, so it could be too late in regard to the new AI laws we need that will likely take forever for our do-nothing Congress to pass.

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Andra Watkins's avatar

In my view, the only way we have a chance to rebuild a government that is better than what we had is to reject what we had. That's what the other side did. That's what the people who couldn't be bothered to vote did.

And why did so many of them do that? Because so many Americans are disillusioned with a "democracy" that claimed "all are equal" while clearly not believing it or practicing it.

I want an "all people are equal" democracy. If that means we have a national divorce, so be it. I want to live alongside people who value "all people are equal." And I want to build governing structures and documents from that basis.

This means rejecting BOTH of our political parties. It means rejecting our current political structure. It's a radical suggestion, but what we had was broken by a fatal flaw in our founding, a flaw we have repeatedly argued about and fought a civil war over, juiced by money in politics and career politicians and a GDP-abhorrent-level investment in constant campaigning.

I'm encouraging people to think beyond what we had. We can learn so much from what happened with that structure, and we can engineer something that could avoid repeating those mistakes. Localized community groups will be key to that effort, and they will all have input in what we build (which differs from today's top-down, consultant-driven Democratic party.) We CAN build something better than what we had, but it will mean realizing what that means. It won't be easy. It will take time. It will likely be bloody.

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