Yeah, I don’t think these solutions are really grappling with the reality of what we’re seeing here. How is “just vote blue” a solution when we’re seeing democrats continue to vote to confirm Trump nominees? Putting our faith in a party to not placate fascists seems ill advised since that’s what they’re effectively doing right now.
And honestly, do we have four years? I don’t want to sound alarmist (probably too late for that), but the speed with which **** has already gotten out of control, makes me doubtful.
I get the frustration at the Democratic party. But they dont control any levers of government. They can’t do anything other than message/stir anger/bring attention to issues. Which is what they should be doing but the old farts, like Schumer, can’t even do that right. Part of it stems from democratic voters being so picky. Do they want the perfect party and candidate or do they want to win? Do they want the perfect policy or do they want power? Democratic leaders may not be perfect but at least they aren’t ordering college kids to be deported, threatening law firms, or texting war plans to journalists.
Protesting does nothing. It changes absolutely nothing. In fact, Trump would welcome it so it would give his brown shirts more people to arrest and deport and his base some red meat seeing a bunch of men, women, minorities, etc beaten the **** out of by his law enforcement.
The only way out of this hole is to overwhelmingly vote blue in the midterms and then (hope) the levers of control aren’t so rotted out that you can vote him out in 2028. It’s why this last election was so important. Democracy was on the line, a fact that many of us took seriously. But unfortunately, a lot of people convinced themselves that egg prices and Harris being imperfect meant staying at home, voting third party, or re-electing an aspiring autocrat. Many Americans decided that a few more months of higher than ideal inflation to protect democracy from an authoritarian takeover wasn’t worth it. While many on the right don’t care what the sacrifice will be, they want an authoritarian takeover.
You’ll never beat an opponent who cares more, is better organized, and better funded. Time for Democrats/democrats to start caring, get organized, and fight for democracy (even if the Democrats aren’t perfect or their candidates (insert silly critique here)). Remember the tea party circa 2009-2010? That’s what we need here. The midterms must swing blue in a complete rebuke of Trump and Trumpism. If it can’t (either because of voters’ apathy or because Trump has consolidated power) then really there’s not much we can do for a generation. Hungary and Russia are the way they are because losing democracy is easy, re-establishing it is hard.
“bUt EgG pRiCeS!”
