Maybe our ONLY option is to Do what we are doing and let the idiots do their thing?

[CommonHumanity]

23. When to sit it back v. when to stand up?

I wonder about this. Not saying it is right or wrong, just that I wonder. My mother's family fled Nazi Germany. I was very close to my maternal grandmother. Momentos of the life of my grandparents left behind were characters in my childhood, especially one small sculpture of a beautiful woman. My grandmother's brother was an artist and it was a sculpture of the woman he loved. He planned to follow my grandparents to the United States but was apprehended by the Nazis as he went to find this woman before leaving. He later died in the Terezin concentration camp.

Anyway....this is not the worst "holocaust impacted the next generation" story. There are so many that are far, far worse. All I am saying is that this history started me thinking at an early age about what I would do in the face of great injustice. Would I be willing to die to protect life and all that is sacred? I found myself thinking this as I read the post. Didn't many otherwise good people in Germany fail to protect the jews because they feared for their own lives and families? PLEASE UNDERSTAND I am not saying Trump and CV19 are in any way akin to the holocaust!!!! What I am saying is Trump has the potential to use this crisis to further consolidate power through his usual disgusting, lying, criminal, constitution-defying tactics and layers and layers of further harm could ensue.

Maybe I should be taking a stand right now on the capitol steps. Holding a sign every day and hoping others join. OK, maybe not that, but something to boldly stand up rather than hunker down and protect myself simply because it is the right thing to do in the face of evil life-destroying actions. Problem is, here is where I don't want to leave my house and expose myself to the virus. I don't want to risk my income or jeopardize my business. I want to hunker down and wait it out, but isn't this what allows things to go so awry for the earth and humanity-hunkering down because we don't want to risk it all. Those Germans that really spoke out or harbored Jews or aided the resistance risked it all. Again, this is not the holocaust, but still, this disturbed individual, his immediate cronies and the type of capitalism that lets the scum rise to the top are threatening the health of our people and the ability of our beautiful planet to sustain life and all that is good.

This probably sounds like naive idealistic inertia. Maybe I am a coward, but I wonder about really stand for despite all risk and when to do it and this post just brought these thoughts to mind. Wondering if anyone has comments or can relate. (Try not to be too terribly hard on me or at least don't totally demolish me. Although I have been reading DU for some time this is my first comment).