These are worthwhile events, and leftists shouldn’t shun them. But stopping Trump requires building power. If protests aren’t coupled with organizing, the right will win.
The way they’re being staged isn’t actually doing more than displaying solidarity, which isn’t bad, it’s a good thing.
But it’s not going to change anything without actual leadership in politics making changes due to POLITICAL PRESSURE. This should be the Democrat’s motherfucking JOB, to look at this momentum and use it to call out and depose ineffectual or bought-out congress and senate members, to strike down legislation, to block defunding institutions, or at the very fucking least, get some strong candidates up for the midterms instead of preserving this geriatric social club/American branch of the Israeli government.
We need to be ousting our Democratic leadership and forcing in new people who aren’t just playing roles and preserving status quo or all of these protests really will be for absolutely nothing.
I keep seeing people talking about how Mussolini was hanged by freedom fighters who marched in the streets. What people miss in that story is that Italy’s ruling government handed the fucker over and he was essentially arrested by the king himself. We don’t win with marches alone, it needs to lead to political action and so far I haven’t seen more than a handful of democrat politicians even reference these marches.
If anything at all comes from this, it will be how we can see clearly which ones are owned by the fascists and which ones actually represent the people.
The way they’re being staged isn’t actually doing more than displaying solidarity, which isn’t bad, it’s a good thing.
But it’s not going to change anything without actual leadership in politics making changes due to POLITICAL PRESSURE. This should be the Democrat’s motherfucking JOB, to look at this momentum and use it to call out and depose ineffectual or bought-out congress and senate members, to strike down legislation, to block defunding institutions, or at the very fucking least, get some strong candidates up for the midterms instead of preserving this geriatric social club/American branch of the Israeli government.
We need to be ousting our Democratic leadership and forcing in new people who aren’t just playing roles and preserving status quo or all of these protests really will be for absolutely nothing.
I keep seeing people talking about how Mussolini was hanged by freedom fighters who marched in the streets. What people miss in that story is that Italy’s ruling government handed the fucker over and he was essentially arrested by the king himself. We don’t win with marches alone, it needs to lead to political action and so far I haven’t seen more than a handful of democrat politicians even reference these marches.
If anything at all comes from this, it will be how we can see clearly which ones are owned by the fascists and which ones actually represent the people.