“By raising awareness, raising the profile of protests by joining and expressing solidarity with them, engaging in legal efforts to block the administration, and introducing legislation to restrict the administration’s formal power; the things that politicians and especially legislators have especial power to actually do?”
“No, we want you to take up arms and take to the streets in a way that we aren’t willing to do ourselves!”
Our legislators have no legal power to stop what’s happening, or at least that’s what they keep telling us.
So yeah, i would expect them to try anything else that might work. Including illegal things. That is if they actually give a shit about trying to stop the rise of fascism, which they don’t seem to give a shit about.
“We need you to help us!”
“By raising awareness, raising the profile of protests by joining and expressing solidarity with them, engaging in legal efforts to block the administration, and introducing legislation to restrict the administration’s formal power; the things that politicians and especially legislators have especial power to actually do?”
“No, we want you to take up arms and take to the streets in a way that we aren’t willing to do ourselves!”
Our legislators have no legal power to stop what’s happening, or at least that’s what they keep telling us.
So yeah, i would expect them to try anything else that might work. Including illegal things. That is if they actually give a shit about trying to stop the rise of fascism, which they don’t seem to give a shit about.