Stephen Miller announces the US has taken the action of formally recognizing left wing violence as a form of political terrorism, claiming liberalism "is a direct threat to our national security and the survival of our Republican form of government"

[u/ExactlySorta]

[u/weresubwoofer]

This election is our last best change to change anything. If we blow this one, it is game over. For democracy, for the environment, for working people.

[u/hotleadburner → u/weresubwoofer]

Your best chance to change anything is on the ground organizing outside the party structure. An elected official didn't make the labor movement, or the civil rights movement, or the anti-war movement. The movements forced the hands of the politicians. This election is just our best chance at slowing the degradation -- although some would argue that slowing the degradation, when done improperly, causes an accelerant backlash like we saw after Biden. If this election goes against Republicans, the Jeffries/Schumer/Pelosi/Biden style of Dem politics will need to be left behind or there will just be another Trump in 2-6 years.

[u/seriouslees → u/hotleadburner]

The movements forced the hands of the politicians

The politicians of those eras weren't cult leaders who had a base that will still vote for them even if they murder a baby on live TV.

The days of forcing the hands of Republican politicians is long over.

[u/Quom → u/seriouslees]

Weird how Musk disappeared with his tail between his legs when people started burning down his buildings. Before anyone starts with the 'he got what he came for', remember that he entered The White House with Trump deferential to him and his son. He left with the minimum after being cut off like an infected limb. The left just believed the propaganda that it was caused by infighting/the right never liked him rather than them actually making a difference.

Same with ICE in Minnesota. It got someone murdered but the resistance was also all over international media (so presumably your own) showing that these things don't have 100% support (but people are just too embarrassed to admit to it) like right wing outlets say they do. Suddenly the talk went from a heroic moving in and rescuing people from hellscapes to needing to work with the community etc.

I don't know what they're putting in the water but it's like every piece of evidence showing that change can still be made through opposition (and doing anything) isn't seen.

[u/hotleadburner → u/seriouslees]

Yeah man I don't think you understood me. The movements made the voting just a rubber stamp. When the labor movement was at its peak, more than half the population was disenfranchised from the vote. Women didn't vote in protections after the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. Men didn't vote women into the right to vote! Schools weren't desegregated because of Brown V Board or the Civil Rights Act, they were desegregated because 10 years after that passed there was still a strong enough, organized enough movement to continue taking action against governments and school boards that tried to evade it.

The idea that you need the politicians to vote your rights into place was specifically taught to you to stop you from taking action.

[u/No-Abalone-4784 → u/weresubwoofer]

Yes. Please. Everybody out there just do anything you can. We don't want to look back & regret this one.

[u/dstlouis558 → u/weresubwoofer]

For society theyll unalive us all