By Seth Karer-Dale

10 months ago, as the Biden administration stumbled around, failing to critique or slow Israel's annihilation of Palestinians in response to the horrors of Oct. 7, I wrote that we should fear an attack on these shores. The world was angry at the excessiveness of the response and angry at the U.S. for funding and fueling Netanyahu's excesses.

You can only mess with the world population so long before nations or networks come hunting the Oppressor.

We are, each day, more distinctly defining ourselves as the Oppressor.

What would we call it, right now, if someone came into the USA and brought some level of destruction, on our infrastructure or population, due to the madness of the things being said or done on the daily?

Terrorism? Intervention? A necessary global coup? If World War III started right now we would be on the wrong side.

We are now behind a new Iron Curtain, with human rights eroding, social services ending, systems gutted, civil servants released from their key roles in infrastructure, commanders and directors of central intelligence and other key departments fired....the list of USSR-like behaviors grows on the daily.

Might Russia or China (or some actors connected) decide that the Greenland threat is real enough (with its strategic US military positioning) not to wait around to let that get established?

Might Canada and Mexico (who still have a non-gutted CIA equivalent) start to prepare for the potential irresponsible assaults on their sovereignty?

What countries might come together, militarily, to defend access to the Panama Canal?

And Gaza. Are you kidding me? To step into the most precarious of global situations, and to offer up something so sloppy and aggressive and insensitive, in the middle of a ceasefire? Really?

The people who come through our refugee resettlement agency, Interfaith-RISE, share stories of tyrants, stories of rapid transformation of society (life turned upside down in a moment). They share stories of war. They share the hard reality that it was often the behavior within their countries (not firstly an onslaught from the outside) that was the reason for their leaving.

I have wondered, in the past few days, how far we are from U.S. citizens being added to 'global migration.' It might sound crazy, but maybe it is not. If World War III were to break out today we would be on the wrong side of the war. We'd be alone, or almost alone, without allies. Where would we seek refuge if we are being attacked from the outside and simultaneously scared-to-death of our own government?

What will Americans do when an attack occurs?

When 9/11 happened most Americans were clueless enough that they bought the line 'those terrorists attacked us because they hate our freedoms.' That was a stupid lie announced by President Bush. We were attacked due to a series of global misbehaviors and abuses that went on for decades. That doesn't make 9/11 ok, but we never really owned our responsibility in creating the 'war' carried out by Bin Laden and others. We'd been engaging in war for years that were directly tied to Osama Bin Laden's world (read Stephen Coll's Ghost Wars).

Will we tell ourselves a simple and stupid story again--when the next attack occurs?

How about we, the people, stand up now, and let the world know we are 100% against the global misbehavior, and the internal misbehavior, of our President. We are living with an abusive father, and, despite being afraid of him, we must take back the narrative of our own lives.

I watched the news last night (I rarely sit for 30 minutes straight of TV news). What a mistake. To hear 30 minutes of wasted time, by smart people, trying to make sense of the President's Gaza statements. Each night, for the next 4 years (and every 2 seconds on our phones) we can be dominated by the agenda of the Abuser-In-Chief, and we'll watch commentators tip toe around an analysis of his every move.

You don't want your child to do that with an abusive boyfriend, and we don't want the nation to do that with our President.

How about we go back to phone, text and email communication only? How about we stop using X and Instagram and Facebook to communicate his news? We must reclaim the narrative of our lives, and this might mean adjusting the way we communicate (since those systems are owned by the President's best buddies). This Narcissist-In-Chief loves the attention. He's in office because our media loves the money generated by the hundreds of millions who, out of fear, amazement or whatever, stumble around kowtowing to him endlessly, even during the 4 years he wasn't president.

Rev Seth Kaper-Dale was the 2017 Green Party of New Jersey gubnatorial candidate.
Originally posted on Facebook.

Photo: Military soldiers guarding holes in the Berlin Wall in 1990 shortly after its fall.