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We’ve Begun Doing Ben Franklin’s Work

Ray Katz
4 min readMar 21, 2025

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See this essay free right HERE. There’s no meaningful resistance only if you look for it in the wrong places.

Protests are everywhere. Opposition is huge and growing.

The revolution has begun. It isn’t being televised. And it’s in the early stages. The authorities are hoping that, because they are ignoring it, that it will whither and go away.

It won’t. It will grow. It will make mistakes and suffer setbacks. But it will learn. And it will win.

Now this isn’t inevitable, but it’s the most likely outcome. Why do I believe this when almost everyone thinks that fascism is gaining strength and the world is going to hell?

Like the Vietnamese, We Have No Place To Go

We are being attacked where we live, in our own country. When we wonder, how did the United States, the most powerful nation on Earth, a nuclear power, lose a war to the North Vietnamese?

It’s the same reason that the Americans won the revolution. The colonists had nowhere to go. The Vietnamese had nowhere to go. And today’s freedom fighters also have nowhere to…

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Ray Katz
Ray Katz

Written by Ray Katz

Internet pioneer. But I’m most interested in stabilizing the Earth’s climate and promoting our common humanity. WeAreSaners.org

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