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Resistor Vic Podcast — Resistance in 2 Parts 3.31.26. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.
I'm Vic Meyers. Welcome to the Resistance. Check out this picture. It's a natural log jam on Gidel Creek in Washington State. Log jams can take years to go from the first log that catches on rock to the hundreds of logs you see here. Think of that river in this picture as our liberty. This liberty river eventually flows into a lake called American democracy. Between this log jam and the lake are several small communities that depend upon the lake for their livelihood. All those logs, I'd like you to think of them as the various challenges that are liberty often faces. Some of them seem small when they first show up. Some of them don't look like a problem at all. In those communities downstream, live many people who depend on that river and that lake. If they're diligent about managing the logs, then their communities and the lake will thrive for a very long time. If they fail to live up to their responsibilities, then this log jam will grow and grow. And
the more it grows, the more damage and potential damage there is. For instance, do you see the difference between the upstream side compared to the downstream side of the jam? On the upstream side, the path of the river is already changing. It's possible that over time, it could change so much that it finds a completely new path and stops emptying into lake American democracy. Or maybe it'll just change a little and only wipe out a few communities. And maybe we don't notice it happening at first. Another possibility is that the log jam continues to grow and get bigger, and eventually there will be a big storm that breaks the jam. Or the oldest logs finally rot and break under the strain of the weight behind them. Either way, all that extra water and all those logs will go raging down to the lake, wreaking havoc on the community's downstream. Landscape will be changed, habitats will be altered, and when all that debris ends up in the in Lake American democracy might be unrecognizable.
Tomorrow, I'll talk about those logs in the building storm that will break the jam. Thanks for listening. Good day.
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