IT'S OVER. GET OVER IT

Democracy Is Dead. The Fight Is All That’s Left.

Let’s stop pretending. Let’s stop clinging to illusions about “saving” democracy through polite debates, symbolic gestures, or another trip to the ballot box. It’s over. The takeover is complete.

Once dismissed as an extremist fantasy, the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 is now more than halfway implemented. With Donald Trump as their willing puppet and an army of sycophants entrenched at every level of government, the framework for an authoritarian regime is firmly in place. It’s not coming. It’s here.

One Party, One Leader, No Dissent

Look no further than Texas, where gerrymandering has been perfected into an art form and voting rights have been gutted. This is not unique to Texas; it’s a national strategy. Through voter suppression, election manipulation, and judicial capture, the game is rigged. Only one ticket counts now, the Trump ticket, and only one form of government: authoritarian rule masquerading as democracy.

We are living in the political equivalent of a one-party state, something we used to associate with dictatorships in unstable nations. The United States has joined the ranks of countries where elections are stagecraft, “opposition” is a controlled sideshow, and citizens have no meaningful recourse through the ballot box.

The Historical Reality

History tells us that regimes like this don’t fall because people file lawsuits or send sternly worded letters to their representatives. They fall when people act, confront illegitimate power directly, disrupt its machinery, and refuse to comply with its demands.

In Nazi Germany, there was no gentle path back to freedom. The dictatorship ended only when Hitler was utterly defeated in the war. That is the grim reality: entrenched authoritarianism is dislodged only by economic, political, or physical force.

The Options Left to Us

If democracy is dead, then saving it is no longer the mission. The mission now is to overthrow the regime that replaced it. That requires total coordinated resistance on every front.

The tools are limited but powerful:

• Boycott: Starve the regime of economic resources. Refuse to fund the corporations and institutions that sustain it.
• Demonstrate: Fill the streets in numbers that cannot be ignored. Disrupt business as usual.
• Quit work: A coordinated labor strike can paralyze the regime’s functioning.
• Military intervention: Yes, history shows that when the government becomes the enemy of the people, the armed forces can, and must, choose loyalty to the Constitution over loyalty to a dictator.

These measures are not comfortable. They are not safe. But neither is living under tyranny.

Get Over It. And Get On With It

It’s time to stop mourning the death of democracy and start fighting for what comes next. We are no longer in politics as usual; we are in the realm of survival.

The regime will not reform itself, and the courts will not save us. The opposition party, if it can even be called that, has already surrendered its position.

We are where Germany was in the 1930s: facing a reality that will not change unless we change it. That means unity, resolve, and a willingness to fight, if necessary.

This is not alarmism. This is the moment. Either we act now, or we accept permanent subjugation.

William James Spriggs