The key thing to avoid is turning all this into a defense of institutions. The institutions are garbage. They brought us here. What we want to defend is a just, democratic future for this country and its people. The institutions will have to be remade to that end.
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Dems must offer a better and more inclusive change from what we had pre-2025. Institutions shouldn't be barriers, but instead are how things get improved.
Trump 2.0 ain't that.
1. Accept that some “institutions” are important
2. Describe exactly what “the institutions” look like after you’re done fixing everything &
3. Outline the strategy for keeping “the institutions” from devolving into exactly what they are now.
This is part of the message of the new Facebook memoir, weirdly enough
https://simplicable.com/society/institutions
It is so easy to criticize: c'mon, tell us what they should be doing and how that is going to actually help
AOC is, in my mind, is one of the few who are actually leading. I also like what Walz is doing. There are a couple others, but the rest of them I do not care about at all.
The millions of us who were left out take it as a slap in the face every time folks like you beam about this “accomplishment”
You’re cheering for a few crumbs when the masses are starving. Do better. Demand better.
We need aggressive and massive pushes.
Corporate Democrats have been a problem for some time (since 2016) and are the reason we are in this situation.
the silence from the corporates is deafening.
Note that in states like California - where the Top 2 primary system would let you run a third party today with a lot fewer barriers - it still doesn't really happen.
Beyond that, you're just pointing out problems caused by only having a two party system. I'm pointing out that we shouldn't have a two party system because it creates problems.
No Kings. No Tyrants. And Absolutely No Nazis.
And equal rights means equal rights for everyone. Especially trans people and immigrants.
Then let's get rid of the two party system so we don't end up in this situation again. And again. And again. And again. Can we please, for the love of god, start learning from history?
I don’t see the point.
The current administration thrives on LibLeft v. Centrist back-stabbing and destabilization.
While they get to paint all of it with the “Radical Leftist” brush.
New Left needs to lead through cooperation not opportunistic usurpation. 🤷🏻♂️
The saddest part is when they think they are "getting the real scoop" but they are just getting corporate feeds.
Sharing the objections to King George III should be useful
We had a pretty good Year 2000 all the way up to November. for instance.
1993 was pretty good...
Revolution would be justified, although perhaps not obtainable without a heavy cost.
April 20th. Hitler's birthday.
Trump's first EO on Jan 20th established a State of Emergency that is still in effect.
That order requires DHS & DOD to report on April 20th if they believe the Insurrection Act of 1807 is warranted & should be declared.
Bummer.
https://bsky.app/profile/prepaid-africa.bsky.social/post/3lkvq6fo5c22v
Can the ouroboros save us?
Everyone from Joan Baez to Gerald Ford
agree with all your points
The highest political ground imo is our freedoms and safety
Trump has no feel for our freedoms + doesn't care if we live or die
Autocracy/democracy less concrete
Tearing down his brand can be pretty straightforwardly based on the grievances in the declaration
https://www.tourlexington.us/lex250/
https://visitconcord.org/concord-250/
Yes, I have strong feelings on this; my mom had that as our family flag. I have the old tattered one that hung in every studio she had; I have ancestors who fought under that flag. I'm not good at the physical fighting, but I'm working at it too, in the ways that I can. ✊
https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia-semiquincentennial-city-council-funding-20250220.html
WHAT DO WE DO???
this all comes down to the money, we either stop its flow long enough to make them listen or we end capitalism altogether, either way it starts & ends w/ the money https://bsky.app/profile/t0ussaint.bsky.social/post/3lc4lcm5qnk2q