What is even real anymore?

I was going to write about regaining some hope and ground this week. About doing better. Then I heard about Rosie O’Donnell tonight. And all my worst fears came back. Maybe we really do need an asteroid saviour.

So trans persecution and erasure isn’t enough. Now US born lesbians can have their citizenship threatened to be revoked. Honestly, I don’t know what to say anymore except I fucking told you so. And this, because apparently we’ve all forgotten:

First they came for the Communists

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a Communist

Then they came for the Socialists

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a Socialist

Then they came for the trade unionists

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a trade unionist

Then they came for the Jews

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a Jew

Then they came for me

And there was no one left

To speak out for me

~Martin Niemöller

Martin Niemöller was a German Lutheran pastor and theologian born in Lippstadt, Germany, in 1892. Niemöller was an anti-Communist and supported Adolf Hitler's rise to power. But when Hitler rose to power and insisted on the supremacy of the state over religion, Niemöller became disillusioned. He became the leader of a group of German clergymen opposed to Hitler. In 1937 he was arrested and eventually confined in Sachsenhausen and Dachau. He was released in 1945 by the Allies.