These are worthwhile events, and leftists shouldn’t shun them. But stopping Trump requires building power. If protests aren’t coupled with organizing, the right will win.
Read the article. It is about what to do AFTER the protest.
The No Kings demonstrations cultivate a sense of solidarity. They embolden people. They show that there is a base of opposition to this sickening president and his sordid agenda. But at the end of the day, the right has to be thrown out of power. In states like Louisiana and Florida, that means working to end right-wing rule in the state government. In blue state cities, that means electing city officials who are going to effectively resist Trump’s meddling rather than rolling over or staying silent. Around the country, it means people with progressive values need to start running for office themselves. But wherever you are, it means taking the next step beyond carrying signs, and strategizing to take back power and enact more just and humane policies.
The way they’re being staged isn’t actually doing more than displaying solidarity, which isn’t bad, it’s a good thing.
But it’s not going to change anything without actual leadership in politics making changes due to POLITICAL PRESSURE. This should be the Democrat’s motherfucking JOB, to look at this momentum and use it to call out and depose ineffectual or bought-out congress and senate members, to strike down legislation, to block defunding institutions, or at the very fucking least, get some strong candidates up for the midterms instead of preserving this geriatric social club/American branch of the Israeli government.
We need to be ousting our Democratic leadership and forcing in new people who aren’t just playing roles and preserving status quo or all of these protests really will be for absolutely nothing.
I keep seeing people talking about how Mussolini was hanged by freedom fighters who marched in the streets. What people miss in that story is that Italy’s ruling government handed the fucker over and he was essentially arrested by the king himself. We don’t win with marches alone, it needs to lead to political action and so far I haven’t seen more than a handful of democrat politicians even reference these marches.
If anything at all comes from this, it will be how we can see clearly which ones are owned by the fascists and which ones actually represent the people.
People need to stop downplaying protests.
As long as they only do them on weekends and then disband like everything is normal, they will be ineffective
At the very least, they need to be held on weekdays so as to disrupt the regular function of the economic machine.
It is painfully clear what tRump’s regime thinks of these weekend protests…
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You’re not wrong….
Read the article. It is about what to do AFTER the protest.
I need to read it, yes. I was doing a blanket comment because lately people been…… not happy about “real results”. Great quote you pulled out.
The way they’re being staged isn’t actually doing more than displaying solidarity, which isn’t bad, it’s a good thing.
But it’s not going to change anything without actual leadership in politics making changes due to POLITICAL PRESSURE. This should be the Democrat’s motherfucking JOB, to look at this momentum and use it to call out and depose ineffectual or bought-out congress and senate members, to strike down legislation, to block defunding institutions, or at the very fucking least, get some strong candidates up for the midterms instead of preserving this geriatric social club/American branch of the Israeli government.
We need to be ousting our Democratic leadership and forcing in new people who aren’t just playing roles and preserving status quo or all of these protests really will be for absolutely nothing.
I keep seeing people talking about how Mussolini was hanged by freedom fighters who marched in the streets. What people miss in that story is that Italy’s ruling government handed the fucker over and he was essentially arrested by the king himself. We don’t win with marches alone, it needs to lead to political action and so far I haven’t seen more than a handful of democrat politicians even reference these marches.
If anything at all comes from this, it will be how we can see clearly which ones are owned by the fascists and which ones actually represent the people.
Why?