PLEASE DON’T LOOK AWAY

 

Demented Don Doing Disastrous Damage Daily

February 5, 2026

I’ll bet that when you drive past a traffic accident you look to see what happened, especially if you’re in the passenger seat, but probably even if you’re driving. Donald Trump has driven a semi filled with explosives (think Timothy McVeigh – the very white Oklahoma City bomber that killed 168 innocent people including women and children) straight into the heart of our democracy, not to mention our economy, social fabric and standing in the world, which are all currently in flames on the side of the road. We need to get back in the driver’s seat, but we are, right now, all in the passenger seat so

PLEASE DON’T LOOK AWAY

I know this is all incredibly painful to attend to. So much. So often. So sickening.

              PLEASE DON’T LOOK AWAY 

I know you can’t take the constant insanity, now with more executions. I know you need to think about something else. Cat videos. Kenny G. Rent-A-Coma. Hopefully you treated yourself to not seeing MELANIA last week. Fine. Take some you time for sure. Do nice things for yourself and others. Think some happy thoughts, but

                            PLEASE DON’T LOOK AWAY

You owe it to yourself, we owe it to each other to not look away. Especially not now as Trump is pulling out all the stops in order to disrupt the midterm elections, which he is scared to death of losing and if we win could very well  put a monkey wrench in the gears of destruction currently grinding our democracy to a pulp. Election Day is only nine months away. 

If you have been avoiding watching the horror, I get it. Self-preservation is important. So is mental health. Both of those things now demand our full attention, because neither of them will be sustainable or even approachable if the current regime is permitted unfettered power. Now it is time to venture back out into the darkness and help turn the lights back on. Everything is literally at stake. Our freedom, our health, the long-standing international order, our planet. It is literally now or never.

                                           PLEASE DON’T LOOK AWAY

Thousands and thousands of people in Minnesota and across the country are literally risking life and limb in dangerous, if not deadly, weather conditions to show that they are not looking away. They need us to not look away and support them any way we can.

Or else, this

We must bear witness to the unbearable. And then beat it to a pulp.

Mario Savio 1964

I. Mangrey reporting. And paying attention. 

Viva Minnesota!