Guest post

Written by an attendee this week!

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The Rise Of Nazism In America

(2025)

“First, they came for the immigrants, and I did not

speak out—because I was not an immigrant.

Then they came for the Lawyers who defended the

immigrants, and I did not speak out—because I was

not a Lawyer, and I thought that they could defend

themselves.

Now they are coming after our Universities, Free

Speech, Due Process, Our Constitution—I can no

longer be quiet because if I don’t speak out, there

will not be anyone left to speak for me.”

We need to stand up for all the Columbia University

students who stood up for freedom of speech and

against the deportation of international students.

They are now being threatened with expulsion from

the university.

Corporations and Our Constitution

It has become very evident in today’s environment that large corporations and

businesses only care about profits. It is understandable because a company or

business cannot exist if it cannot make a profit. CEOs claim that they have a fiduciary

responsibility to their stockholders and their employees, which they do. However, these

same corporations and businesses would not exist today if it was not for our

government and the Constitution that defined and created that government. Our

Constitution encouraged free speech, the exchange of ideas and thoughts and the right

to due process for everyone in our country. It allowed and even encouraged people of

all kinds to take risks and to go after their dreams, create a business and raise a family

in a country that was an envy of the entire world.

Trump has chosen to go after our liberties, the right to due process. He has found it

easy to go after our universities by taking them on one by one while the corporations

just stand by and complain only about tariffs and what they will do to their business. I

have not heard any CEO’s and CFO’s standup against Trump and for our Constitution.

They backed him, hoping that he would make them money and remove any regulations

on them. I have not seen any of them at any of the 1000s of rallies of ordinary citizens

trying to defend our Constitution, our government and our freedoms. I propose that we

continue to take a play out of Trump’s playbook. We have already seen what we can do

as a group against a company like Tesla and its CEO Elon Musk. The company Target

is dealing with decrease shopping traffic because of their surrender to Trump. It is time

to now take on the banks and the corporations that backed Trump and helped get him

elected. I believe that we can get this done using the same tactics and I believe that we

should go after Chase Bank and CEO Jamie Dimon. I propose that we, the people,

notify Chase Bank, that if they do not start standing up for our democracy and our

Constitution then we will cancel our Chase Bank credit cards and move our credit cards

to another bank. If that does not work, we can then discuss future actions. By taking on

one major bank, we still have the other banks hungry for our business and they can

witness what can happen if they do not back our Constitution.