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.

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 hours ago

    the vast majority of people are just carrying on

    They’re surviving because that’s all they believe they have the power to do.

    the entire last year should have been spent networking, organizing, planning

    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.