A Light for When All Other Lights Go Out

I love stories - specifically fantasy, science fiction, mythology - anything where heroes overcome monsters that threaten humanity's existence. I think they tell us something about the light of humanity and offer a window through which to glimpse our own inner spark. So, I haven't been able to help looking to them to see what they say about the answer to a tRumpire spreading its dark, dictatorial wings over the U.S.... and the rest of the world. 

For evil to triumph, all that is required is good [people] to do nothing.
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~A popular saying misattributed to various people, usually Edmund Burke, but the origin of which is ultimately uncertain.

Darkness gains power because no one effectively opposes it early enough. To be fair, the things one would do to put an end to it early are often the same things that make Darkness dark. It's hard to be the ethical hero and execute people before they are obviously the Dark Lord. Things have to get bad enough for the world to accept what you have to do in the hero's guise.

Our system of government, with checks and balances of congress and the supreme court, are like the magical wards of stories that trap the horde of monsters in some other dimension. We've been watching those wards fall, and now the monsters are loose, and the land is being ravaged.

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