No one with sense says it "can't happen." One says, I think, "If it happens it can be dealt with summarily." One can choose not to believe and behave like a victim.

Protections?

The Vote(s).

The right to vote in elections at every level.

The dollar vote.

The vote I can cast with my feet.

My ability to write powerfully and rally people when it counts.

My alliances with others who think clearly.

My ability to give GREAT counseling sessions to leaders who can make an immediate difference.

Big Mick.

Everyone Big Mick counts as friend.

The intrinsic power of other human beings.

God's power for truth over the long term.

People's inherent hunger for freedom and their creativity in getting it and keeping it-- as individuals and as a species.

The difficulty of maintaining an expensive apparatus to oppress people in an economy we all can read and influence.

The mass media we can all tap into now to quickly sound the alarm and work around bulsh*tty barriers.

The vulnerability of rigid barriers to eminent good sense and creative action, and experience violating bad barriers many, many times in my life in many, many settings.

The ability to love people who act like complete idiots, but aren't, really, underneath, and who want what is right as much as the next human bean.

The triumph of good over evil being easier than the obverse.

My own good sense about how to communicate and maintain my own territory around myself, with others doing the same.

My MIND.

My music, and yours, all of you.

~Susan