Yes, we have to think *beyond* voting! What will we do the day after, or the week or month after November 7? The Democratic Party, putative leaders in so many places, obviously have *no plan at all*!
Effective opposition to a fascist takeover needs to have some form of leadership or cooperative action.
The most obvious alternative leadership might be from the union or organized workers movement (in an AFL-CIO union or not.) With so many industries destroyed this leadership may not originate from “industrial unions,” the historical base of strength, but we’ll take leaders where we can find ‘em. 🤨
Yes! Leadership is sorely lacking. I am extremely anti-authoritarian by nature, but every effective resistance needs leadership. Where are they? Who are they?
Yes. I have long thought that massive civil disobedience should be in the works. I think it was in order when Dobbs came down. It takes great bravery, I know, and it's easy to sit on the sidelines and call for such. But, just as with any great social movement--women's suffrage, civil rights, anti-war , etc.--people must rise up, organize, get in out in front of the courthouse where these traitorous robed cowards dwell, and be hauled off to jail if necessary. Easy for an oldster like me to ask such courage of others, but it must be done or the next generation will lose everything.
Yes, we have to think *beyond* voting! What will we do the day after, or the week or month after November 7? The Democratic Party, putative leaders in so many places, obviously have *no plan at all*!
Effective opposition to a fascist takeover needs to have some form of leadership or cooperative action.
The most obvious alternative leadership might be from the union or organized workers movement (in an AFL-CIO union or not.) With so many industries destroyed this leadership may not originate from “industrial unions,” the historical base of strength, but we’ll take leaders where we can find ‘em. 🤨
Yes! Leadership is sorely lacking. I am extremely anti-authoritarian by nature, but every effective resistance needs leadership. Where are they? Who are they?
Yes. I have long thought that massive civil disobedience should be in the works. I think it was in order when Dobbs came down. It takes great bravery, I know, and it's easy to sit on the sidelines and call for such. But, just as with any great social movement--women's suffrage, civil rights, anti-war , etc.--people must rise up, organize, get in out in front of the courthouse where these traitorous robed cowards dwell, and be hauled off to jail if necessary. Easy for an oldster like me to ask such courage of others, but it must be done or the next generation will lose everything.