So about that "It Cant Happen Here" bullshit

[Cyrano]

Well, it has happened. We have a madman in the White House surrounded by sycophants who would rather live in the Trump cesspool than disagree with the maniac they work for.

It’s virtually beyond belief that this ignorant, sick, buffoon got there. Not to mention Bannon who is pulling the idiot’s strings. But here we are. And what are we going to do about it?

Well, we can expect the congress to recognize the tragic mistake caused by the Electoral College, and impeach Trump for, umm, perhaps a few dozen different reasons. But this ain’t gonna’ happen.

So what’s the alternative? Beats me.

We’re only two months into the insanity. And there’s no end to it in sight.

Revolution? Against who and where and how? Public protests with heads bashed in? That worked during the civil rights marches, but I doubt if it would work today.

Perhaps I’m just in a deep funk, unready to surrender to the scum of the earth, but with no idea how to oppose them.

So given that it is “Happening here,” what does anyone with a conscience, a sense of right and wrong, and a hatred of the pricks who are destroying us, do to fight it?

Suggestions?

[cilla4progress]

1. As a student of political science

I always knew "it" could happen here.

Good Germans ...

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3. i knew we were in trouble as soon as hitler became a caricature of nazi power

attention shifted to "it" being the murder of 6 million jews and a madman wanting to take over the world. stiff-arm salutes, square mustaches, armbands, and swastikas.

people didn't realize that the symbols that seem silly now were symbols that resonated with the people at the time. people think hitler can't happen here because we'll recognize him because of his mustache. forget the square mustache and the swastikas and imagine symbols that work here and today. american flags, ball caps, slogans like make america great again, etc.

people lost sight of the fact that what you can't let happen is hitler 1933, before the ovens and the camps and the annexations. by the time 1941 rolls around, it's far too late. the hitler who promoted national pride, hate against groups who weren't "really" part of the country's heritage, etc.

that's what needed to be stopped.

now it may be too late. we're largely left to trust what's left of our corrupt institutions.
hope that congress rises to the occassion.
hope that democrats use the filibuster power effectively and wisely.
hope that republicans don't just remove filibuster power.
hope that the courts continue to push back.
hope that republicans don't just ignore that courts or arrest all the judges.
...

if these institutions fail around us, there's not much left we can do to stop complete disaster.

[cilla4progress]

5. Great points

We are certainly at - if not already over - the precipice.

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2. sadly, the traditional path out of the darkness is

to watch them ruin everything and only then wise up.


my own analysis is that we can't possibly win, or at least we certainly can't sustain any win, unless the media is fixed.

foxnews and the hate radio bubble can't really be altered, so it's only if the rest of the media roundly rejects an dismisses that world that we have any hope at all, and i don't see a path to that happening.

there's just too much entertainment value and profit in getting sucked into that world.

[still_one]

4. 2018, contacting your representatives, that has already had them put the brakes on the ACA repeal,

Local and state elections, ACLU, planned parenthood and other advocacy groups, etc

[liquid diamond]

6. I remember during the 2008 election

the fringe left laughed at the idea of President Palin. That sac of shit Tom Tomorrow even made a political cartoon mocking that possibility. Well, here we are. Except there is someone much worse sitting in the Oval Office.

My suggestion for fixing this disaster doesn't focus on fighting trump. Instead, we need to get our own shit together. We can do so my registering people who did not vote and pressure them to do so on Election Day. We have to reject and call out fucking purists who threaten to sit out elections because our candidate isn't perfect. We see what that attitude got us in the last general election. We need unity and those bastards are de facto republicans trying to divide us. There are other strategies, but considering we barely lost the last election, that should be enough for victory.