I’m very pissed about the state of our opposition tonight because I’m an academic who studies substate resistance movements. What Dems are doing right now, is -not- it.
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I bookmarked this and I plan to read the piss out of it sometime when my executive dysfunction isn't kicking me in the head and my UTI isn't making me hallucinate
We really need more effective political resistance because if we don’t get that, the more likely the violent forms of protest will take over when enough lives are ruined. And not every “solution” to political problems is a good one, believe me. The world is full of bad history like that.
Even if they weren't planning to before, they had the opportunity to walk out en masses when rep. Green was removed. I'm desperate to see some fire, some fight. Oh, well, I suppose we'll have to stay in orderly lines while they march us off to the camps.
It’s mind-boggling. Do they not care? Do they not understand the moment? Do they seriously have no clue how to do even the most basic form of resistance?
I don’t think they do. The leadership is all old guard who entered the work when politics was much easier. This is a new much more challenging era. They’re still playing by the old rules and it shows, painfully
They have a failure of imagination because they are out of touch with reality… they’re among the gilded elite now, unlike AOC who has actually held a working class job. They are over their heads and soft. They are inconsequential. May we be rid of them.
Fair enough. Al Green went the farthest for civil disobedience, so he deserves particular recognition. Big hat tip to him, lesser hat tips to everyone who resisted one way or another.
Haven't heard anything substantive from them in months. Fair to say Millennials and Gen Z are on their own. The old folks are too tired and comfortable. No fight left in them
Exactly. Were are way beyond symbolic colors and signs being enough. It’s reps’ job to provide leadership and direction in situations exactly like this. That’s what they got elected to do. -They- need to be organizing and committed to the messaging. If they won’t be, no one will.
The old Democrats who have held office for ages, who sat there shaking their heads and holding up ping pong paddles with cute phrases, they have all got to go. Their ideology is irrelevant. Their mannerisms are lame, and their familiarity has become toxic.
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I'll vote for any Democrat over a Republican but I'd prefer to vote for more public defenders and teachers.
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Haven't heard anything substantive from them in months. Fair to say Millennials and Gen Z are on their own. The old folks are too tired and comfortable. No fight left in them
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