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
I guarantee that the Democrats won't roll back the more consequential economic parts of Trump's policies. The parts taking away women & minority rights the Democrats will claim they oppose & then slow walk back reversing to keep women and minorities voting Democrat in hope of codifying them.
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
Why "peacefully"?
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The 101st intervention at Little Rock was not peaceful
The Stonewall Riot was not peaceful.
The National Guard response to J6 was not peaceful.
The Ukrainian response to Russian invatson is not peaceful.
Should it be peaceful? Should the Ukrainians be holding sit-ins?
A USA bird flu patient died in January. 76 people have died in airplane crashes, after zero deaths in 2015-2024. Veterans die without VA care. Trans suicides. Americans are dying. How many more deaths, before it's time to open that fourth box?
I presume the regime's plan is something along the lines of protests of a police execution of another unarmed Black man being called an "insurrection," giving them a pretext to suspend the Constitution and declare martial law.
It's like someone using a genuine pair of dice & someone using loaded dice. With Republicans you'll likely get worse beatings but also the small chance of winning a piece of chocolate. With Democrats it's the same regular beatings but with no reprieve.
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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The 101st intervention at Little Rock was not peaceful
The Stonewall Riot was not peaceful.
The National Guard response to J6 was not peaceful.
The Ukrainian response to Russian invatson is not peaceful.
Should it be peaceful? Should the Ukrainians be holding sit-ins?
1. Soap box
2. Ballot box
3. Jury box
4. Ammo box
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_boxes_of_liberty
Then #4 begins.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/09/21/democrats-share-blame-for-afghanistan/
Dems need to retake Democracy 101 because F