January 25, 2026

If your voice held no power, they wouldn’t try to silence you.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933 – 2020), American lawyer and supreme court justice, attributed (i.e., I saw it on a t-shirt)

The attribution makes sense. Bader wasn’t one to waste words. And it has the ring of truth. But how does one steer their way to the truth, when every faction is preaching its version of it, and dishing every other view as “fake news”, or right-wing fantasy, or  “woke nonsense”, or crypto-fascist propaganda?

Those are all standard criticisms of opposing views but the issue here is not whether it is the truth that you speak; it’s about the power of your voice, and better still, the power of your voice added to those of myriad others. That is what “they” fear, and why they wish to silence those voices.

There may be safety in numbers when speaking out, but numbers can also make real the threat of political annihilation as carried out at the ballot box.