Fuck the GOP. I changed my registration to independent. But I may not vote again anyway.
Fuck the GOP. I changed my registration to independent. But I may not vote again anyway.
This attitude is what hurts us the most.
A traitor needs to be seen for what it is: a traitor and nothing else.
The problem I see is pointing out a problem is not the same as offering a solution.
If you don't offer a solution, then people will default to what they have been normalized to accept or not push against.
Despite all talks of civil war, and even despite political solutions being 90% likely to fail, that is still a more practical and likely route to success then any other method. Weekend commandos don't like to hear this, no one does, because it sounds like massively dirty and difficult work, and oh boy is it ever.
There is a very good reason though that the marxists fight tooth and nail. And if you look, you'll see the same goal every time: political power.
Because political powers is a force multiplier. It decides who the police and soldiers point their guns at. Who gets funding. Who gets legal cover. Who is allowed to push around who. Fighting an opponent, in a war of perception, for control of the middle, and all the resources and logistics that come with that, when your opponent can use the state's resources to label you as the literal devil (terrorists), is setting yourself up to lose.
I think realistically, its not that there are no political solutions. It's that there are almost none left, and even fewer viable.
And we owe it to future generations to try anyway.
Our leadership of course will be harassed, our supporters imprisoned, our members assaulted, our organizers framed, and our political backers killed indiscriminately. We will have justice denied in courts. Crimes committed against us will go unpunished and their perpetrators rewarded by federal agencies and NGOs. The news will label us all terrorists and foreign agents. The banks will foreclose on our members, and even confiscate our funds to win in court, or run campaigns. Businesses will deny us. Our properties, such as cars will be impounded, or fined. Police will run cover for rioters inflamed against us by the media.
All of this and more. And this is all good.
How? Why?
Because what it says to me is the state cannot afford the hit to its legitimacy to silence, disappear, or kill us all outright. We are not enough of a threat for the state to justify a massive crackdown to completely obliterate us without risking the public seeing the state for what it is and turning on it.
And so we must organize, build, and endure
This attitude is what hurts us the most.
A traitor needs to be seen for what it is: a traitor and nothing else.
The problem I see is *pointing out* a problem is not the same as offering a solution.
If you don't offer a solution, then people will default to what they have been normalized to accept or not push against.
Despite all talks of civil war, and even despite political solutions being 90% likely to fail, that is still a more practical and likely route to success then any other method. Weekend commandos don't like to hear this, no one does, because it sounds like massively dirty and difficult work, and oh boy is it ever.
There is a very good reason though that the marxists fight tooth and nail. And if you look, you'll see the same goal every time: political power.
Because political powers is a force multiplier. It decides who the police and soldiers point their guns at. Who gets funding. Who gets legal cover. Who is allowed to push around who. Fighting an opponent, in a war of perception, for control of the middle, and all the resources and logistics that come with that, when your opponent can use the state's resources to label you as the literal devil (terrorists), is setting yourself up to lose.
I think realistically, its not that there are *no* political solutions. It's that there are *almost* none left, and even fewer *viable*.
And we owe it to future generations to try anyway.
Our leadership of course will be harassed, our supporters imprisoned, our members assaulted, our organizers framed, and our political backers killed indiscriminately. We will have justice denied in courts. Crimes committed against us will go unpunished and their perpetrators rewarded by federal agencies and NGOs. The news will label us all terrorists and foreign agents. The banks will foreclose on our members, and even confiscate our funds to win in court, or run campaigns. Businesses will deny us. Our properties, such as cars will be impounded, or fined. Police will run cover for rioters inflamed against us by the media.
All of this and more. And this is all good.
How? Why?
Because what it says to me is the state cannot afford the hit to its legitimacy to silence, disappear, or kill us all *outright*. We are not enough of a threat for the state to justify a massive crackdown to completely obliterate us without risking the public seeing the state for what it is and turning on it.
And so we must organize, build, and endure
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