Hello All
Thank you for allowing me to introduce my purpose for joining UpTrusting. com.
I chose “ActionTraction” as my user name to express my conviction that all the most meaningful talk and written material is meaningless unless it inspires and is followed with meaningful action.
Tyranny takes action. So must those fighting tyranny.
I, daily, encounter volumes of what I call “meaningful talk talk talk”.
This meaningful talk comes from those with whom I agree and identify, Sadly, we render this same “talk talk talk” meaningless because we take no subsequent action.
I am as guilty as anyone, but I am keenly aware of the inaction that follows.
I am certain that many good and decent German citizens spoke and wrote about their opposition to the rise of Fascism in the beginning of Hitler’s reign of terror.
What good did their righteous words do? If not for other nations’ refusal to cower, Germany might well be a monstrous Nazi Regime today.
My mantra has been this since 9/11 and the Bush/Cheney illegal and misdirected response to this tragic event.
My mantra is this:
If the United States of America does not correct the errors of its hubristic ways, the rest of the world will correct them for us… and it will not be pretty.”
My mantra should now include “…and our self-destructive ways…”
Trumpism is, of course, as dangerous to the global community as he obviously is to the USA.
With over a decade of talk talk talk and writing about the perils of Trumpism,
we may have already delayed action too long.
But if we continue to only talk talk talk and write write write about the evils of MAGA and Trumpism we can reasonably expect unthinkable hardships ahead.
I hope here, at UpTrusting.com we can focus on how we transform our words into actions capable of defeating what all of us already know is full-blown Fascism.
I am looking forward to engaging with members of this group.
Duane Short ~ July 4 2026