History Will Not Treat Those Sleepwalking Through This Crisis Well
There’s a peculiar form of blindness that comes from prolonged safety. Like a frog in slowly heating water, people who have known only stability become incapable of recognizing existential th…
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So what do you expect anyone to do about it? Sure, journalists can write and write.
All we have is voting and that is off the table until 2026. If it still exists.
I don't mean to be rude but the call to action of this article is nothing more than "be afraid". Being afraid doesn't stop this.
Historically, just being vocally disapproving is helpful. A huge part of gleichschaltung is normalizing atrocity starting with basic shit before moving into killings.
You have direct action. Or, to rephrase, you only have direct action and not much time to act before everything goes to shit.
What sorts of direct action do you think could be viable?
Strikes and hard boycotts are incredibly effective. There are other less favourable options too, but you should probably start with the strikes and boycotts.
How do you go on strike against a government if you are not a government employee? And what would it even mean to boycott your own government?
It looks to me, you are looking for excuses to not do anything. Yes, doing anything at this point is risky. Doing nothing is even riskier. People are already dying because of what is happening. Those usaid medical cuts, have already killed people who literally depended on them to stay alive (like affording O2 tanks). The FAA cuts have killed people, but most of those were blatantly obvious. I guarantee immigrants will die or be murdered in gitmo due to this administration. Hell, the manchurian mango is already calling himself King in his social posts. And. It. Will. Only. Get. Worse. It definitely wont start magically getting better, especially given a good portion of the dem party leadership is upset that progressive groups have been "annoying" them by trying to get them to do their jobs and actually be the opposition party and to actually DO SOMETHING.
That sinking feeling you may have that nobody is doing anything about this is literally because the people who's job it is to stop shit like this from happening are just sitting on their hands and letting it happen. Only a small portion of the elected DC officials are actually doing shit. So yea, we are all that stands in the way now. So, do you want to live in a free country or are you going give up and become a collaborator?
Idk to me it read as if they genuinely don't know what to do or how to help. I have only heard of a few protests going on. Other than protests, organizing, and boycotts, I'm personally not aware of what else someone could do.
Trump and company aren't going to stop because of protests. They have money and power.
So, ultimately, it comes down to threats or violence. But people have to get uncomfortable enough(things have to get bad enough) for them to get to that point. Nobody wants to get to that point, so all other options will have to be exhausted beforehand unless something causes escalation of the situation.
You hurt their donors. You strike at your regular job but it only works if the majority do it or in key industries. It's why the US has worked so hard to dismantle and discourage unions. Unions give the people power they can leverage.
Hard boycott is to stop consuming products from companies that donate to the administration. Dont buy them. Find alternatives where you can and go without when its not a necessity. It's really really hard but its the most powerful non violent method available
Going on strike is one thing that comes to mind.
