About to explode

The government is trying to tell the CDC scientists they can't use words like fetus, diversity, and science-based.

It's time to read Timothy Snyder's On Tyranny.  Again.

Do not obey in advance.

"Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do. Anticipatory obedience is a political tragedy."



"When political leaders set a negative example, professional commitments to just practice become more important. It is hard to subvert a rule-of-law state without lawyers, or to hold show trials without judges.  Authoritarians need obedient civil servants, and concentration camp directors seek businessmen interested in cheap labor."

First, they eliminate the intellectuals.

This decision to forbid scientists from using certain words is coming from the same people who claim they haven't been able to say "Merry Christmas" while the black man was in the Oval Office.

Call your congressman, call your senators, call the Secretary of Health and Human Services, call the Pope, call your neighbor and tell them that if they allow this, it is just the next step in the downfall of U.S. democracy.  Resist.