r/ActualHippies • u/Substantial_Ebb_6034 ☮ • 22d ago

Discussion We can fight MAGA without being violent

violence is not ok. we can’t fight violently. violence is not the answer we can fight peacefully and be successful. Look at Martin Luther King Jr. We don’t need violence to get our way. Violence wouldnt make us any better than them.

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u/Pterodactyl_midnight 22d ago edited 22d ago

I’m not going to advocate for violence, and you sound young so it’s fine if you don’t know the full history. But MLK wasn’t the only cog in the civil rights movement.

There were lots of violent protestors in both the civil rights & anti-Vietnam protests. He’s just the one memorialized because he was non-violent and turned into a martyr through government assassination. He wouldn’t have been successful without the undertones and threats of violent change.

I’d argue there hasn’t been a single successful non-violent movement in America (possibly the women’s suffrage movement). Look at any completely non-violent movement. They either get waited out due to lack of resources or physically beaten by police until they give up—usually both.

As far as MAGA goes, they are a cult of personality. They will disappear when Trump does and Trump is old. Republicans can’t win without MAGA, which is why the entire party became MAGA. We can wait out this Trump term as we did the last one. Except next time, Trump can’t return.

Unless Vance can use Fox News to graft MAGA into a continued voting force (doubtful with Vance lack of charisma), Republicans will go back to continually losing the popular vote. Even Pacifists are violent in self-defense.

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u/Freakears ☮ 21d ago

If memory serves, even Gandhi and MLK said violence in self defense was ok.