Tom Ellis
Jun 3, 2024

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Thank you for this lucid and sensible analysis, Steve. I desperately hope you are right about this! But if not, we need to be prepared—NOT for violent internecine conflicts (which would be a wet dream for Trump and his MAGA gun nuts) but rather for Satyagraha: nonviolent noncooperation with evil that is mindful, strategic, and relentless. So let’s create study groups now to read Gandhi, King, Havel, Mandela, Wangari Maathai, Vandana Shiva, Gene Sharp, and all other theorists and practitioners of nonviolent resistance, and prepare ourselves for the long game—mindfully, strategically, and relentlessly.

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Tom Ellis
Tom Ellis

Written by Tom Ellis

I am a retired English professor now living in Oregon, and a life-long environmental activist, Buddhist, and holistic philosopher.

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