United States | News & Politics

1922 readers

1304 users here now

Welcome to [email protected], where you can share and converse about the different things happening all over/about the United States.

If you’re interested in participating, please subscribe.

Rules

Be respectful and civil. No racism/bigotry/hateful speech.

Post anything related to the United States.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

441

Do not give into the fear and despair that Trump wants you to have. Fight anywhere and everywhere (lemmy.ml)

submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

29 comments fedilink hide all child comments

https://bsky.app/profile/emmacurtis.bsky.social/post/3lajnn5f3z22d

Consider running yourself in any local down ballot race near you

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 days ago (3 children)

All of this hopefulness assumes they don't erode voting rights over the next 4 years. And they've had plenty of time to stage exactly that, including captured courts when anyone fights those new laws.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Even then, that doesn't mean it's over.

The fight against fascism is literally never over, even if Trump lost it wouldn't be over.

The sooner everyone acknowledges that, the better off we'll be.

What's holding us back is the DNC insisting every election is life or death and could be the last election to justify shit the Dem voting base doesn't want.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago

I've heard tentative plans for a mass general strike in 4 years. It won't be easy, but if they won't hear our voices, they don't get our labor. There's a lot of preparation to do between now and then, and we're going to have to look out for each other. But labor has more power than we realize if we just use it.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Don't give it to them freely. If we give in, they can just move on to the next thing. Make even minor law changes a pain for them. Fight every battle so that they cannot spend as much time eroding voting rights.

Elections are run at the state level, even ones for federal office. Make sure every local office is filled with a progressive that will stand up for it. Some states have elections next year (before midterms) for offices that are going to matter for exactly that

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I don't think any supreme court justices are in this thread, and they are the ones that mostly have a say.

Eroding voting rights will be done on a federal level.

I'm not saying you are wrong, we should definitely protest, resist, and vote in local elections, but we don't really get a say now that the country decided to give the reigns to fascists. I don't think people realize how hard this will be to undo. These SC justices are going to be there for a very long time.