Rioting in the streets. Organized resistance. Not going into work, not paying mortgage/rent. You’re sitting through a passive civil war where all the “liberties” that were fought and died for in the past 100 years are being stripped away without due process and without legal recourse. What do you think you should be doing about it? Nothing? How’s that going?
You gotta do what you gotta do. I was implying concerted efforts, not just one person. They could take all your assets tomorrow if they wanted and no one could stop them. Are you going to wait until they knock on the door to act?
As with many people, it isn’t just about me. I am not willing to move my family and my elderly parent onto the streets at this stage.
The government could have taken all my assets at any point in the last 50 years if they wanted. We all have to deal with the current reality. I think we are still at a stage where protesting and voting may be enough to turn things around. Meanwhile, I am supporting local efforts to protect vulnerable people from the new policies. There is organized resistance and it is scaling up.
I disagree with you outside of extreme circumstance, the government wasn’t coming for your anything, except maybe your vote. Now, if you show dessent, if you’re the wrong skin colour, if you’re the wrong political party, he wants your stuff, and you in jail or out of the country. By word and action. And do you think he’s lining the government coffers or his own with all that booty? Corruption all the way down. Seized as proceeds of made up crime, who’s gonna stop them?
Understand that I don’t entirely disagree with you. Particularly on the first two points. Not going into work and not paying for housing are only effective if large numbers of other people are doing it too. We may get to that point, organized resistance is happening, but anyone doing those things right now is simply going to become homeless and desperate.
People rarely take actions that they know will destroy their lives unless they feel that they have nothing further to lose. More people are reaching that point every day and that may eventually make that kind of resistance effective. For better or worse, the average citizen is not there yet. I hope the growing protest movement will force changes first. It is still early days.
Some of us are working on steps just like the ones you list. I absolutely agree, every American has a responsibility to help end this ongoing nightmare.
Rioting in the streets. Organized resistance. Not going into work, not paying mortgage/rent. You’re sitting through a passive civil war where all the “liberties” that were fought and died for in the past 100 years are being stripped away without due process and without legal recourse. What do you think you should be doing about it? Nothing? How’s that going?
So you recommend becoming homeless as the best solution?
You gotta do what you gotta do. I was implying concerted efforts, not just one person. They could take all your assets tomorrow if they wanted and no one could stop them. Are you going to wait until they knock on the door to act?
As with many people, it isn’t just about me. I am not willing to move my family and my elderly parent onto the streets at this stage.
The government could have taken all my assets at any point in the last 50 years if they wanted. We all have to deal with the current reality. I think we are still at a stage where protesting and voting may be enough to turn things around. Meanwhile, I am supporting local efforts to protect vulnerable people from the new policies. There is organized resistance and it is scaling up.
I disagree with you outside of extreme circumstance, the government wasn’t coming for your anything, except maybe your vote. Now, if you show dessent, if you’re the wrong skin colour, if you’re the wrong political party, he wants your stuff, and you in jail or out of the country. By word and action. And do you think he’s lining the government coffers or his own with all that booty? Corruption all the way down. Seized as proceeds of made up crime, who’s gonna stop them?
Understand that I don’t entirely disagree with you. Particularly on the first two points. Not going into work and not paying for housing are only effective if large numbers of other people are doing it too. We may get to that point, organized resistance is happening, but anyone doing those things right now is simply going to become homeless and desperate.
People rarely take actions that they know will destroy their lives unless they feel that they have nothing further to lose. More people are reaching that point every day and that may eventually make that kind of resistance effective. For better or worse, the average citizen is not there yet. I hope the growing protest movement will force changes first. It is still early days.
Some of us are working on steps just like the ones you list. I absolutely agree, every American has a responsibility to help end this ongoing nightmare.