Where are the nationwide protests? The national strikes against the destruction of what is left of U.S. democracy? As for the eerie complacency of the Democrats, it is hardly surprising why there is such a huge loss of trust in the leadership of the Democratic Party.
The largest worldwide protests in history (at the time) happened on February 15th, 2003, to try to prevent the War in Iraq from happening.
The war happened anyway. Take that for what it’s worth.
(We even have JD Vance saying Europe didn’t do enough to stop the war, as if the giant protests weren’t enough)
Stop protesting and start building parallel systems we can rely on when we all need to General Strike, which is coming quite quickly. We will need systems to feed, water, clothe, house, and in general care for one another during a nationwide general strike. While people aren’t wrong that being armed will probably be a necessary part of that, in the USA, that’s the only part people seem to focus on, forgetting that you cannot eat bullets.
The protesting is what makes people realize and become confident that radical change is needed you fool.
DO NOT STOP PROTESTING
Protest AND do the things you are saying.
Yeah, another point is that a lot of times, building parallel systems like this looks like nothing is going on. Like I have my garden and am always generally prepared and handy anyway so no one looking at me is going to think anything is changing much.
I guess purchases show a different kind of story, but no one is really looking at that either.
Edit: At least parallel systems on a smaller scale, I guess.
Everything starts small, my friend. A lot of leaders don’t become leaders because they want to be, but because they were already putting in the work. You may find yourself in such a position someday, out of sheer necessity and due to the fact that you were laying the groundwork for future efforts. Don’t sell your efforts short, small things add up.
Oh yeah lol I’m not knocking myself, more just pointing out the holes in the article that was linked.
As you, and others have said, protesting is all well and good, but this is more of a long haul type of thing, so it looks a little different.
Edit: Also, thanks for the kind words, stranger.
In that case one thing you can do is spread the word so other people do the same as you.