It’s time to pull out the history books.
If you don’t want to go down the road of violent revolution (and I can’t blame anyone for that) remember that Martin Luther King and Gandhi were arrested for their actions.
Breaking the law is not inherently violent. Non-compliance is not inherently violent. Sabotage is not inherently violent. Malicious compliance is not inherently violent. Stopping the Republicans requires a rethink about what are acceptable tactics, peoples lives depend on it.
But the people who clutch the pearls over tactics are not the people who are going to be the first who are on the receiving end violence, so they are far less likely to be willing to put their physical safety on the line.
Maybe at the national level, but they have done a lot at the state level in states with blue legislatures. And these battles are now primarily being fought at the state level.
It’s easy to think that the national government matters more than the state government, but the state passes most of the laws that actually affect day-to-day life. And that’s where we need to be voting right now.
This! And even lower. It’s been said that your local school board has more effect on your life than the President.
I don’t know how true that is now that there’s been a fascist President who radicalized SCOTUS, but it was arguably pretty true back when Presidents sat around calmly debating economic and social policies with experts and committees, ultimately tweaking societal knobs that might not show any visible effect at the voter-level for decades.
Vote local for real change; vote national to stem the rising tide of fascism.
No matter what: vote!
Yeah. Centrist tone-policing helps the GQP by allowing the Dems to tilted further right and normalizing far-right-wing ideologies as just one valid perspective.
And voting (alone) doesn’t work terribly well, especially with one side dismantling elections and disenfranchising voters. Protesting, making a noise online and offline, getting these pieces of shit to feel at risk if they don’t do something, are all valid methods.
I’m happy to see the replies aren’t having it. You know what’s undemocratic? Telling people not to criticize the party.
Hillary asked them to.
Who asked them to? Why you gotta bring up figures from ancient history? That was figuratively decades ago.
And real convenient source on the leaked emails there. It’s like the people who got Trump elected are trying to blame the other side for getting Trump elected.
Always blame the woman. /s
I think the biggest issue I see for the Democratic party is that when there were windows of opportunity to codify things such as Roe v Wade (in my opinion, this isn’t necessary if you’re not dealing with naïve textualists, but sometimes you have to spell it out for them) they seem to have refused to do. All the while, even in these windows when they tried to get some legislative agenda done, they’ve constantly tried to integrate their opposition into the deliberation and refinement process only for their opposition (both within the party and in the GOP) to dismantle significant portions of that agenda (ex. the whole ACA affair where both Republicans and Joe Liberman kept trying to derail the whole set of laws involved). I think the current leadership hasn’t gotten a clue or maybe they’re just in denial but in either case they’re acting as if the GOP and the right wing of their party are acting in good faith when the opposite is true. IMO, it’s time for the Democratic Party to start being aggressive (long overdue imo) and force the issue on governance as a whole. If the GOP refuses to respect the will of the majority then maybe then the Democratic party ought to act as if the GOP has no legal basis to rule in any capacity, even if they do win on simply majorities in various polities. Just refuse to give them quorums, refuse to participate in committees. Quite literally gum up the apparatus of state power. None of these actions are illegal nor treasonous. If the GOP tries to escalate it to that level then they’ll have to prove it. Call them liars and frauds, no more the media saying, “well this is inaccurate…” No, it’s a lie, chief, I don’t care if they try to sue for libel and/or slander. Just call the GOP leadership liars, frauds, and tyrants. I really wish the Democratic party and its non-party operatives would get the message already, you win by any means, even if it looks bad in forms/etiquette.
On the other side of the pond, one union leader (railway workers, in dispute and on strike) shows exactly how this should be done. Others should take note. Sadly there are very few Labour party MPs who would have the balls or the nous to do this.
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