Ideology is malleable. People aren’t nearly as “axiomatically opposed” to anything as you think they are.
If your organization is already taking direct action (protests, strikes, sit ins, peaceful civil disobedience) then your tactics will naturally escalate as the government becomes more authoritarian. If you pitch extreme tactics now, though, the only people who will join will be the craziest.
You can only make them while they’re vulnerable
They won’t abolish elections all at once. Their strategy for the midterms - or at least what it seems to be - is voter suppression and gerrymandering. Those are powerful tools, don’t get me wrong, but not so powerful that they’re invincible.
Obviously it would have been better to already be organized, but failing that, the best time to organize is now.
Ideology is malleable. People aren’t nearly as “axiomatically opposed” to anything as you think they are.
If your organization is already taking direct action (protests, strikes, sit ins, peaceful civil disobedience) then your tactics will naturally escalate as the government becomes more authoritarian. If you pitch extreme tactics now, though, the only people who will join will be the craziest.
They won’t abolish elections all at once. Their strategy for the midterms - or at least what it seems to be - is voter suppression and gerrymandering. Those are powerful tools, don’t get me wrong, but not so powerful that they’re invincible.
Obviously it would have been better to already be organized, but failing that, the best time to organize is now.