Like do these people show up at wildfires and tell the firefighters “there’s no point in trying to put the fire out, it’s just too powerful, the whole state is going to burn up and there’s nothing we can do”?
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I suppose that would come down to whether or not they were actually firefighters or just some guy and his buddies with a garden hose defiantly declaring "at least we're trying," as the inferno encircles them.
Right, but my point is that relegating people with doubts to merely being Debbie-downers around those "fighting" is slightly unfair without considering whether or not the effort being put in has any efficacy to begin with.
It's not entirely unfair to remain incredulous, all things considered.
I admit, it's incredibly hard for me not to doubt right now. I have very little confidence in conventional systems being able to offer any resistance when it's those very systems that are being disassembled. Especially when so much of this was anticipated, but we were told to trust the process.
Oh god, don’t trust the process. Become part of the process. But if you think that having all these executive orders declared illegal and unconstitutional is exactly the same as having them universally honored as good law, for example, I don’t know what to tell you.
As Kathryn said, there are a lot of people doing things, some big and some small. Every time someone does one of those things or speaks of their intention to do so, there is ALWAYS somebody to pop up and say "Well that won't help. That's stupid. That won't solve it. Don't do A, do B instead--"
Like, even if you're not involved in efforts to try to fix things, or at least keep them from getting worse, just... shut. They want us to be miserable, so even refusing to do so is an act of defiance.
Yeah. I’ll admit I’m a relentless optimist, because I have to be or I’ll never get out of bed. But I do think it’s better to encourage people to do the things they can do at the scale they can do them, rather than treat those efforts with disdain bc they haven’t fixed everything yet
I 100% understand and empathize with the disgust towards members of Congress who wring their hands and do nothing. One hundred per cent. But the folks who do nothing but tell others that their efforts are pointless are SUPER not helping
When Cory Booker pseudo-filibustered, he specifically said that he was doing it because his constituents demanded action.
Vanishingly few elected officials want to fight, but some of them WILL if you grab them by the ankles, drag them to the edge, & throw them into wolf pit.
Not everyone’s time and talents are equally suited to fighting back, & for SURE everyone’s time and talents are useful in different ways. Some people can do a lot. Some people can do a little. Some folks can do things every day; some folks only have the opportunity to make a difference occasionally.
Nobody can tell you what your best effort is. You know your own life, your resources, your abilities. Big far-away problems are intimidating, but the these policies are bad because of the ground-level effect they has on real people’s lives, and that’s where little things can make a big difference!
If you’re feeling hopeless, look at how fascism is hurting people in your community right now, and brainstorm ways to mitigate that harm. Helping one person one time is better than helping no people ever
I posted about this a while back but the original Quantum Leap finale had Sam lamenting that he was only helping one person at a time & it wasn't enough, only to be told that those bits of help do matter. People can learn from that now. I did, and act accordingly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lCyGZZACFQ
I read the beginning of that first sentence and my brain auto-completed it to "if you're feeling hopeless, look at how fascism is hurting Trump voters"
Those folks are that one character in every action movie that has to shout out "were not gonna make it" at the dramatic point to try to do a shitty underline of how dramatic the point is supposed to be. Hacky writing in media, and just as annoyingly vapid in real life.
And heck, Chris Van Hollen is probably going to go to El Salvador this week or try so not all of them are doing nothing, but yeah, anxious doomers are a lot.
Had this moment during the election when Trump was shot. Like American Denethor -- "I will go now to my pyre. To my pyre! No tomb for Aemerica! No tomb! No long slow sleep of death embalmed. We will burn like heathen kings before ever a ship sailed hither from the West. The West has failed.!"
But we can't be that way. It's natural to feel gloom and/or doom, but you know, even if it were predestined that the Republic will fall, do you want to remember that no one lifted a finger?
No, I want a better future, and will fight for it.
Most of these types strike me as being unable to clean their room without someone else doing the heavy lifting. My attitude is, "Ok you struggle with everything for whatever reason, but maybe spending more time on *your* struggles & less doomposting would help us all".
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It's not entirely unfair to remain incredulous, all things considered.
And what they are doing is damage mitigation that might just make a fucking difference.
This is full on resistance with no stopping no matter what it takes!!
Vanishingly few elected officials want to fight, but some of them WILL if you grab them by the ankles, drag them to the edge, & throw them into wolf pit.
Your calls matter.
It’s frustrating that these people don’t want to act until they can get the complete lay of the land. But we can give it to them!
But just do something because it won’t do it by itself, bring one person along and that becomes two…
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