- cross-posted to:
- politics@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- politics@lemmy.world
During the campaign, it was kind of hard to picture the specifics of how Trump might pull such a thing off. Alas, it’s getting less hypothetical by the week.
During the campaign, it was kind of hard to picture the specifics of how Trump might pull such a thing off. Alas, it’s getting less hypothetical by the week.
you have to be aware of a thing before you’re going to act on the thing
the vast majority of people are just carrying on as if it’s all business as usual, either because they’re just not paying attention, or deliberately ignoring things that are “uncomfortable to think about”
the entire last year should have been spent networking, organizing, planning–countless fucking things, in order to fix the fascism problem. but no one’s interested in realizing, much less taking action
They’re surviving because that’s all they believe they have the power to do.
All of this has been happening. We’ve had multiple protest marches, fund raisers, and relief efforts for vulnerable people in hostile states and counties.
If you’re not seeing it, you’re not looking for it. But then this is part of the problem.
There is no single national organization to rally around. At best you have some short lived movements - No Kings, BLM, Code Pink, Occupy Wall Street - that dissolve (or are dismantled) as soon as they emerge.
Otherwise, you’re organizing with a regional group - your local union chapter, an LGBTQ org, a political outfit like Palestine Action or the DSA or PSL - that’s at best a few dozen, largely disconnected from one another.
The closest thing to a general strike we’ve seen was the Minneapolis January 23 action, which lasted a day or two and never stretched beyond the city limits.