This is truth, borne out by plenty of prior examples.

Oh, I dunno… How’s Trump doing it?

Kiernan got to it before me. It looks like what the Republicans have been doing since the contract for america. Block them. Use every parliamentary trick possible. Make up new “norms”. Twist every word they say, every action they take into the most absurd, evil, or stuipid action. When in power, pass laws that make evil shit harder. Reinstate laws that make lying about news and politics by a large corporate propaganda machine like Fox illegal.

The first time Republicans “negotiated” in bad faith, they should have hit them hard politically to let them know they would not accept that shit. Instead, they went passifist and rolled over to show their bellies.

Typical. They ignore their members who are screaming “grow a spine, we’re losing because we aren’t fighting!” Literally for decades, then after they lose it all, contritely act like there’s something nobody could have seen coming they now have to learn from.

What, you didn’t see the consequences of letting the senate leader block a supreme court assignment for a fucking year? It never occurred to you they’d turn right around and seat the Republican assigned one within 24 hours?

Unprecedented? Really? You have a house election victor who still hasn’t been seated after a month and the Republican ones were seated within 24 hours. I haven’t seen one iota of fight in you fucking dweebs. They stop you when you have the majority, but you can’t do fucking anything when they have control. You guys fucked us over more than the Republicans did. At least we knew what they were doing. We expected you to fight for us and you fucking folded every single time, while telling us you would stand up and fight.

Now the only way were getting those Nazis out is full on military uprising, and anybody with a fucking clue knows it.

Can’t say I’m surprised.

Thanks.

I think it’s more of a “keep the eyes on the prize” strategy. Distraction tactics are meant to dilute opposition elsewhere.

I see from the comments so far that the disinformation trolls discovered that Lemmy exists.

Basically, any action from a non-fascist approach is attacked based on who they are rather than what they do. They also define who they are with straw men and inference.

Maybe after 350 years here in America, I need to seriously consider returning this family to Europe 😞

It’s the major flaw in text communications.

Thanks for the link.Trump is going after those next - nonprofits.

Well, I think AOC is leading the fight, but she needs support to become a major player politically. Mamdavi is evidence of her rising power, and he can now be one of those leaders.

Jasmine Crockett is another. Sure, not DS, but easily a coalition member. I hope there is strong effort foran revolution of leadership in the Democratic Party.

Alright, (s)he might identify as a liberal, but he’s actually exactly the same as the most radicalized MAGA cultists. He just chose a different set of crazy.

That person does not represent even 1% of liberal or progressive adherents. Crazycis crazy, regardless of that lunatic’s flavor of belief.

As for reactions to “democratic socialist” by Democrats, I suspect what you are seeing is from people who are chest deep in the Democratic Party core activist zone. They likely are afraid of change, even if it would better meet their ideals. Their cozy insulated blanket is just soooo warm. :)

This is why the techniques pioneered by the native americans, and taught to colonial rebels by their experience fighting with them, would be the most likely path.

What is that, you ask? Guerilla warfare. It’s why we were able to defeat the most powerful colonial empire since the Romans.

We had the same conditions you described, a good chunk of people who still considered themselve British were mixed in with those who sought freedom.

I agree it was easy, when we had a chance to actually enforce our laws and constitution. Leadership failed to do that, and now all the leaders who had the power to do something are replaced with lackeys.

Easy is no longer on the table.

Well, editorially, I suggest you break up those paragraphs into smaller ones, and maybe add some headings for a “wall of text” like that, but you make well thought out arguments and I totally agree.

When it becomes clear that the citizens no longer have a controlling voice in choosing who leads us, that is when revolution is a valid choice.

BTW, I’m one who is old enough to remember (like Pepperidge Farm - there, proof I’m old enough)

Perhaps the Democratic Socialists (DS) can become the unifying source of resistance. They are the ones fighting, but there are too few to have political impact.

It’s up to the citizens to back them, and the DS must drum up the leaders and present them so citizens can choose them.

I think the DS values are the closest to the new deal approach that made America a wildly successful nation and beacon for just treatment of humans.

Heck, Europe and Japan took their governing cues from America during the Marshall plan. They are examples of following the ideals our leaders used to value. This is the real “make america great again”.

Don’t forget the riots and strikes between 1900 and 1920 (or 30?).

Successful application of violence today is complicated by the sophistication of surveillance and the electronic, centralized distribution of money.

It’s difficult to pull together a large enough coalition to be able to fight effectively because the process of finding those people is short circuited by early discovery.

Nonviolence is the only way until a large enough segment of the population is desperate enough to trigger action.

Before that happens, effective leaders must be found and a support network must be readied to go into action quickly to professionalize and unify it when it happens, but before that is used to manage nonviolent action…

Perhaps this is why trump just declared war on nonprofits. They could potentially pull together resources to keep people fed during a coordinated nationwide strike.

They in general exist to tackle goals directly opposed to fascist regimes, so it males sense to target them.

Education, social justice, feeding the hungry, and protecting nature are all examples of goals Trump’s regime are staunchly against.

Sure, he can catch food, but how does he eat if his jaw is broken? Sure after a while it heals in a likely deformed shape, but until then any attempt to use the jaw would only serve to rebreak it.