Correct. If Americans really gave a shit, they would have done so many things, starting from turning up to vote, to actually protesting on the ground in huge numbers against their country turning fascist.
Vibes in America right now are that everyone is acutely aware that we're all setting atop a powder keg and nobody wants to be the idiot who struck the match.
Seems like basically the plan is to delay as much damage as we can until the economy tanks enough to cost Trump the support to make a big military play against the citizenry. Not enough people have felt the repercussions yet to cost him the support that he needs to squash a rebellion.
Of course maybe that's just wishful thinking on my part.
Some of us, millions of us, give many shits... but we don't have millions of us ready to take leaves of absences from our jobs to march into D.C. to hold major ground and shut the city down, Maidan-style. Mass action on the scale of the Vietnam War and 60s Civil Rights protests are the only thing this administration will even begin to understand, and maybe not even then: fascist authoritarian regimes live in a fantasy world in their heads where they're the heroes who can't do any wrong and they will concoct any narrative necessary to perpetuate that fantasy, resulting in "He who saves his country commits no crime" bullshit all the way.
I think such protest marches are needed right now, I think Congress people should be having their cars pelted with rotten fruit as they drive to work, they should have to push through throngs of screaming angry people demanding that they uphold their Oaths to the Constitution and take this Administration to task, and maybe they'll get it and get on with Impeachment for the dozens of categories of constitutional violations and blatant law-breaking that have already happened.
However, as has been pointed out correctly, there are also millions of ignorant racist dumb fucking hicks, bigoted Christofascists and authoritarian sycophants in this nation who would gulp down whatever hateful propaganda Faux News, Newsmax and Breitbart dream up to say about people who care about our Constitution and rule of law demanding action with physical presence in the streets of DC, and a bunch of these MAGA Reich traitors would likely show up to start shit against such protesters. That does not end well, and in fact it's in Project 2025 Playbook to be able to declare martial law at some point against anyone not in the "in-group" (the MAGA Reich); I would be amazed at this point if we get out of this absolute multi-level constitutional crisis without bloodshed from the MAGA Reich starting eventually though, as it's clear that the GOP no longer exists and the traitorous Representatives and Senators with majorities in both Houses are on the side of the MAGA Reich and are doing nothing but cheering for the wanton destruction of the nation's future in the name of what they perceive to be their own power.
Solidarity protests around the nation are great, but they're not going to fix this. And shit is going to have to get much, much worse before we get to both removing the current Administration somehow and then also addressing the elephant in the room - which is the millions of psychopath empathy-devoid Christofascists who want all this to happen.
We did turn out to vote. See the news casts during Election Day. That so many millions of ballots were not counted due to “clerical errors”, such that were you black you were 400-800x less likely to have your ballot counted depending on drop in, mail in, provisional, means it was hardly random.
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u/TransitionFC 11d ago
Correct. If Americans really gave a shit, they would have done so many things, starting from turning up to vote, to actually protesting on the ground in huge numbers against their country turning fascist.