WHAT does it take?

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What Does It Take?

What does it take to awaken basic morality?

History keeps asking the same question, and humanity keeps answering it too late. The Germans slept while millions of innocent people were marched to their deaths. Americans took years—far too many—to wake up to the lies and slaughter of Vietnam. Slavery did not end because conscience suddenly appeared; it ended only after oceans of suffering and blood. Progress, it seems, is always dragged forward kicking and screaming.

So what does it take?

Today, we are watching the same paralysis unfold. Donald Trump has built a modern dictatorship in plain sight, surrounded by lickspittles who mistake loyalty for virtue and cruelty for strength. Institutions bend. Truth dissolves. The rule of law becomes a suggestion rather than a foundation.

What does it take?

When Trump’s thugs shoot a woman in the face and excuses rush in faster than accountability, what does it take? When lies are documented, replayed, and then repeated without shame, what does it take? When power is used not to protect the public but to intimidate it, what does it take?

History tells us the answer is never “one outrage.” It is never the first crime, or the second, or the tenth. It is always after the damage is undeniable—after the bodies, after the ruin, after the moral collapse is complete.

The real question is not whether Americans will wake up.

The question is whether they will do so before history adds another chapter explaining how ordinary people watched, waited, and asked—again and again—what does it take?