How long should we fear the knocking?

When I was a wee lad, there was nothing that worried me more than someone knocking on the front door when my parents weren't home. Even if I did answer the door, what would I tell them? 

 It seemed safer to just hide in the dining room and wait until the knocking stopped; after all, how long could they knock for before giving up. 

As I grew older, my fears subsided to a point and I was happy to answer the door in any state. After all, people would be respectful... right? 

For the past decade, there has been a wrapping on the communal front door. Slowly that knocking has turned into a banging. Now, no longer the polite knuckled tapping but a full fledged clenched fist, pinky end led pounding upon what feels as though the only defense against Elie Wiesel's night.

Each day the pounding grows louder. Each day its defense less palatable. Yet we cower in silence under the dining room table, praying it will stop and go away, like cowards.  

At what point do you answer the door?

Like pastor Martin Niemöller's warning, we wait. Surely this call is not for me; my parents will come home at any moment, the visitor will give up and walk to my neighbor, my imagination will subside and I will realize it was the wind. 

 No. 

Our parents are never coming back. 

The door will soon break under the weight of the knocks. 

We could have stopped it before, not so long ago when the knocking was softer. But we failed. 

Every day we fail. From American flag lapel pins to thoughts and prayers, what was once a contract for America has become the Reichstag fire. 

It has always been between right and wrong, but those who have sworn to man the watchtowers have proven to be turncoats; abandoned posts and backs turned to society in favor of the almighty dollar. 

Yes, many are brain washed, but most of our leaders are cowards. 

We have the power to end it, and all we have to do is open the door. 

All we have to do is say no. 

Fight the fascists. fight the right. fight the gop. 

Do it with your money. do it with your time. do it because if you don't, they will tell you how to.