Multiple fronts required. No one action will be the solution. Vote to establish legitimacy. Protest to register dissent. Civic pressure to demonstrate conviction and organization. Fringe ‘performative’ resistance to sow sone unrest and uncertainty and maybe inspire. Some violence fir fear, mostly aimed at inanimates. In the street security details, like minneapolis.
And most importantly, daily microresistance and malicious compliance, sabotage, redirection, and education.
the overwhelming majority of the country lives paycheck to paycheck or is otherwise one accident away from destitution
keeping people just on that edge of survival but not literally starving acts as great tool for keeping the poors inline, has been the US’s bread and butter for many decades now
Multiple fronts required. No one action will be the solution. Vote to establish legitimacy. Protest to register dissent. Civic pressure to demonstrate conviction and organization. Fringe ‘performative’ resistance to sow sone unrest and uncertainty and maybe inspire. Some violence fir fear, mostly aimed at inanimates. In the street security details, like minneapolis.
And most importantly, daily microresistance and malicious compliance, sabotage, redirection, and education.
Agree completely. I am just shocked at the amount of people that stop after your first bullet point.
the overwhelming majority of the country lives paycheck to paycheck or is otherwise one accident away from destitution
keeping people just on that edge of survival but not literally starving acts as great tool for keeping the poors inline, has been the US’s bread and butter for many decades now
My take on what is likely necessary to end fascism:
The 4 boxes of liberty: the soap box, the ballot box, the jury box and the ammo box (preferably in that order).