I like to prepare for everything. With the US house of reps passing the block med care for trans kids and RFK remored to announce it completely blocked, what are my options?
Off the top of my head 1) get meds in Canada or Mexico or 2) move out of the USA
Is there anything else?
It really looks like America has passed the point of no return there as well, though. Peaceful protesting can be and is ignored by Trump, and probably by whoever succeeds him. The traditional democratic instruments don’t really threaten the Republicans existentially anymore, and can’t grow back without support from both parties, so they’re also out.
Like, they’re going to lose the midterms (because they’re incumbents and the economy is bad, not because anyone’s been persuaded by logic). But that’s just one election in a system that’s been slowly degrading for two or three decades, and in which the president has really massive powers, now including just ignoring the laws.
If you think the “no kings” protests were ignored you weren’t paying attention to how loudly the right wing bitched about them.
Heck, it can be argued that their scale was why senate Dems let the government shut down over the ACA subsidies – and while I think how that shutdown ended was cowardly, it was also the most politically effective shutdown in US history. (There are multiple bills to extend those subsidies, and everyone knows which side is against them!)
Complaints are cheap, IIRC they also complain about the Starbucks cup most years. The lasting impact of No Kings has been zero and the last time I heard it brought up was to make a pun work. Same vibe as the pussy hats thing from however many years back.
I almost included the shutdown as an example of why the Democrats seem unlikely to be the faction that remakes the system. They’re more than a decade behind the Republicans on besieging government funding to get things, and they still didn’t land it.
I don’t know, maybe the Republicans will dawdle long enough, the Democrats will have their own internal MAGA-style transition, and it will happen that way, but I just wouldn’t bet on it.