05-03-2025, 08:20 PM
IMO this is what the birth pangs of a genuine resistance may look like, and we're only a few short weeks in. No pussy hats, no tired old Russiagate or screaming "Nazi!" until people get tired of hearing it, but those from their own party who already don't like what they're seeing. Things like firing vets at the VA, and the optics of the world's richest man going after grammas Medicaid, might just fall under the category of unintended consequences and wind up uniting both democrats and republicans alike.
The sooner people begin to understand that this is a class issue, a top/down issue not left/right, the sooner we can maybe enter the realms of thinking about uniting in a general strike to shut this shit down, maybe even finally get a real left wing party to replace these shitty, center right democrats. Short of something along these lines, I'm afraid this really might be all she wrote for what still remains of this democracy/republic.
As Mario Savio put it two years before I was born:
We shut that shit down, we have a chance but it would take a movement together bearing all political stripes under the banner of one common goal, which is obviously hard if not darn near impossible to do. Unless this cycle of holding our noses and automatically voting blue no matter who for these greedy worthless democrats, the barn door will remain flung wide open for fake populists like DJT.
I like these "Due Dissidence" guys, commentary and analysis from a very level headed lefty perspective.
The sooner people begin to understand that this is a class issue, a top/down issue not left/right, the sooner we can maybe enter the realms of thinking about uniting in a general strike to shut this shit down, maybe even finally get a real left wing party to replace these shitty, center right democrats. Short of something along these lines, I'm afraid this really might be all she wrote for what still remains of this democracy/republic.
As Mario Savio put it two years before I was born:
Quote:There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part; you can’t even passively take part, and you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop. And you’ve got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you’re free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!
We shut that shit down, we have a chance but it would take a movement together bearing all political stripes under the banner of one common goal, which is obviously hard if not darn near impossible to do. Unless this cycle of holding our noses and automatically voting blue no matter who for these greedy worthless democrats, the barn door will remain flung wide open for fake populists like DJT.
I like these "Due Dissidence" guys, commentary and analysis from a very level headed lefty perspective.
"FOLLOW THE EVIDENCE, WHEREVER IT LEADS" SOCRATES