10 individuals who together altered the course of world history in 2025
[I wrote this several months ago while unsucessfully attempting to make contact with Senator Angus King whom I envisioned as possibly being a key to a fantastical “Congressional correction”. I knew it had a snowball’s chance in Hell of happening but I had to try to do something besides stand on a bridge with a sign that would win or loose absolutely no one. Discouraged, I gave up my efforts. However, from the vantage of late November, 2025 yielding an unimaginable almost unanimous vote against Trump’s attempt to burry the Epstein files, the impossible-to-predict retirement announcement of MTG, the inexplicable fauning looks Trump was giving Mayor elect Mamdani (in the Oval Office nonetheless), I’ve elected to alter my fantasy of a clandestine strike to an overt common sense solution. Making my fantasy public may take away some of the drama but it just could quietly get some players to react. (“Hey, who’s been playing with the thermostat in Hell?” as Gary Larson once posed.) Maybe Margorie Taylor Greene will be the first most likely to participate rather than the least.]
Every day I awaken with a glimmer of hope. There is a small number of people who have it within their powers, at great physical, emotional, and existential risk to themselves and their loved ones, to storm and overtake the pilots in the cockpit of world humanity in 2025 and avoid a disaster from which we will never recover. The event will take place in the confines of the world’s greatest democracy but will generate a global tsunami. The effort must be clandestine, swift, and surgical. It is not a coup; it is a correction. The territory will be uncharted.
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This fantasy is as believable, maybe even more so, than everything else :
- I will awaken to learn that 5 republican senators and 5 republican congresspeople with conscience have secretly been meeting and together have sprung their plan to switch to the other party/caucus… perhaps temporarily, maybe not… effective immediately.
- Our cherished balance of power has been recalibrated.
- Hakim Jeffery is now the speaker of the house,
- Chuck Schumer the leader of the senate.
- From that courageous but seemingly easy to execute decision that doesn’t even require paperwork or anyone’s approval, is legal and not prohibited in our Constitution, 10 people have reestablished a balance and guided the American political system back toward a more moderate path that proceeds with careful consideration of domestic and global needs.
- Laws will be passed, committee assignments will be altered, bills will be introduced with the intention of being fair and bipartisan.
- With “today’s” events, a landslide of courageous party shifts to strengthen the concept even more could occur. There was never any risk that the “move” would be negated by a flow in the other direction. (Well, maybe Senator Fetterman is an exception in which case we’d need 6 Republican senators to participate.
- We learn the backroom ground rules that that were established beforehand by a few democrat catalysts and leaders in both houses have assured our heroes that if the plan is a failure, they can always switch back.
- From this moment, it is easy to imagine all the downstream benefits that occur domestically and globally on a daily, monthly, yearly basis.
I don’t think I’d ever let myself sleep again.
