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The US has no allies anymore. The whole world is disgusted with what has happened to America...and with the fact that nobody in America seems to care enough to meaningfully change it. Y'all need to wake the fuck up and realize you're all acting like Germans in the late 30's.
People keep saying this as if we've all got a lever we could pull to get him out of office and just...aren't doing it. No, there's no direct way to make it happen. There's no meaningful opposition party, and no way to remove a president from office without one. The indirect ways to do it--namely, protest and primary challenges--well, a lot of us are doing that. And those who are and aren't protesting are held back by needing to work in an economic system that ties our healthcare to our employment.
The problem can't be solved in just a few months. This is a coordinated assault against liberty that began decades ago; it'd take a few years to sort out even if the entire middle and lower class was in agreement, and a sizable undereducated, propagandized population in the lower class is going to take some time to get on board.
"Wake up" and do what? Take up arms? That's a pipe dream sold by the NRA to keep conservatives buying guns. So what are we supposed to do that we're not already doing?
Getting ready, I suppose. We need an actual grassroots movement with commitment and organization. General strike seems about all that's left to us
This.
Yeah, a couple more posts on lemmy and things will change.
Exactly...but i'm not American. This is a cross Americans have to carry. I can't change shit on my streets...but Americans can.
We can, in theory but shit's hard in practice. Any systems for exerting collective power have been incredibly degraded, some of which has been intentional by motivated power systems. We don't have local community groups with power anymore - we need strike funds, mutual aid groups, local leadership and activism... And none of that is really in place right now.
My take is that lack of collective power is giving rise to lone gunmen types that don't feel they have any recourse
A general strike, or boycotts, would accomplish more than any bullet ever could.
You really rallied the masses, the revolution is any day now.
Ok what is the plan then? How do you think we should do to solve this? How many people do you think will die doing your plan? How should we fight the military as they will use them to try and stop any plans you make? Or is it that you think that we have to make our own plans?
well you guys just had an election and chose this.
Step one would have been not doing that. But since you can't change that, find someone to primary your local Dem and get more fuckers like Bernie in power.
You should recognize by now that among US users on the fediverse, there are basically zero (0) Trump supporters. You're haranguing the people who are some of the strongest opposition to Trump. What are you trying to accomplish here
No, I do understand that.
I’m just at the end of my wits on some of this “nothing can be done” doomism or hand wringing we see from all angles all the time now.
“well all the parties suck” goes around and around and around nobody pushes to change anything.
Saying the parties suck doesn’t fix them. They know they suck but they suck in a way that a few abusive assholes benefit from, so they’ll never change. They suck on purpose becayse they think their bread is buttered by the rich.
I’ve just had enough.
I’ve stopped pretending I need to accept things and started doing things regardless of if they sound hard.
I can’t run for office, I don’t have the skills or interests. But I have some money and donate to politicians who support things I like, I joined a party to try to influence their policies (I hate that I had to do that), I write my MP and make it clear where my donations stand in respect to policy. They only give a fuck about money.
I don’t know, it’s shit, but it’s fucking something.
Americans must have some equivalent they can do at the local level at least.
Stop expecting us to figure it out for you. The protests and May day were a good start, but you need to remember your union history too.
Yep just like everyone else no plan just bitch and moan. This crap has been in the works since Bush Sr. We dont have a plan since we help yet when us USA citizens do ask for help in planning we get "do it yourself" well I for one am tired of it either you can help or you can SHUT THE FUCK UP.
I made suggestions to you in regards to planning (aka. the protests and May day strike) and for you to investigate your own history in regards to how the unions stood up to the corporations. What else can I do as a non-citizen of your country?
I get it, it's a fucking shit show there, but what do you realistically want me to do? If I were a US citizen, I would do something to help. How about you use the fury of the last four words you directed at me towards those who are actually tyrannizing the world instead of someone who is actually sympathetic to your cause?
I vote, I protest, I talk to those I can talk to. Nothing changes. I am just a disabled person with limited resources. What else can be done? I don't have money or the ability to make much changes. Yet non-Americans seem to expect us to rise up against this. Hell my state isn't even the gerrymandering war. I vote for democrats in local elections that can help. We have trouble getting unions as most people I know live paycheck to paycheck and do not have enough savings to do a strike. The twenty year plan of the republicans that has eroded the education system has worked. People are either not smart enough to not vote against their own self interest, they feel disillusioned and don't vote, or vote as much as they can. I wish there was more people who voted in local elections but time off of work isn't something a lot can do. America has been running towards a cliff since Citizens United, which gave companies the ability to bribe our officials. I worry that this county will fall before I die. It feels hopeless some days. edit: So when I see people say just go vote it really feels like someone telling a clinical depressed person to just not be sad.