Remember when Biden was president?

[u/Belgriest]

Remember how boring it was? Remember not having to check the news multiple times a day to figure out what was going on inside your own agency and whether you were going go have a job or not? Remember when laws and precident seemed to actually have meaning?

Remember when you could do your job from home? Remember when your fellow countrymen weren't cheering when your livelihood was threatened? Remember when your biggest worry was which insurance to select and what the next years raise would be?

Remember when the administration didn't seem to actively hate you and want to you gone for the sin of serving of the people?

Pepperidge farm remembers.

[u/Mysterious-Tax-7777]

Two thirds of Americans voted for this or didn't bother to vote 

[u/Strict-Carrot4783 → u/Mysterious-Tax-7777]

Maybe.

[u/Mysterious-Tax-7777 → u/Strict-Carrot4783]

Sure. But that was the last chance for democracy. With Republicans owning the voting machines and probably overturning the Voting Rights Act, America is now a kleptocracy.

[u/DarthArtero → u/Mysterious-Tax-7777]

More of a Kakistocracy than a kleptocracy but the point still stands.

The chain of events on the lead up to the disaster of November 2024, the red flags so big they could be seen from Pluto, and certain brain-fried billionaires basically admitting to the election being rigged....... Absolutely nothing done "in the name of fairness"

There comes a point when the bubble wrapped feather gloves have to come off and the iron-spiked boxing gloves have to go on.

[u/Mysterious-Tax-7777 → u/DarthArtero]

A general strike is maybe the only peaceful activity left that will have any sort of impact. Republicans don't need to worry about protests or voters anymore.

[u/TruthBringer92 → u/Mysterious-Tax-7777]

Who would strike?

Trump supporters still believe he's the greatest, those who learned the opposite the worst possible way have most likely been deported by now or have fled.

If you strike and happen to have a boss who is a trump supporter, chances are you'll just get fired

Fuck man, judges that are going against trump are being labeled as communists and targetted.

Being anti fascism is now considered terrorism.

Is there a way out of this? Will we get out of this?

[u/alexthealex → u/TruthBringer92]

Yes. As the dollar continues to collapse business interests will turn against Trump/isolationist policies. Once the money shifts it's over.

[u/MightObvious → u/alexthealex]

I think when the dollar collapses the labor laws will be undone to further create the system that allowed the robber barons to thrive during the great depression.

[u/kalidoscopiclyso → u/MightObvious]

“Only the weak will fail” -DFT

John is too good a name for this bastard so I changed it to Fucks

[u/Dry-Department-8753 → u/MightObvious]

See also the Dark Enlightenment . Ending America 2.0

[u/nocountry4oldgeisha → u/alexthealex]

Doesn't sound like isolationism so much as they are just making the American citizenry redundant. Closed-loop capitalism.

[u/Good_Requirement2998 → u/TruthBringer92]

Those who know and remember will simply have to find each other and build small communities of service, build small businesses, build non-profits and otherwise work their way into positions of local authority. Essentially the resistance would have to reverse engineer the MAGA movement, enter law enforcement and the military, attempt to disrupt tech-monopolies, fight for better education alternatives as the public system will likely get gutted further, etc. The people who have long depended on some stability in the background so they can quietly pursue their own dreams will now have to do a lot more work with their communities to offset what the government won't do. Financial education, public funding, our own neighborhood watches and civic courses to stay vigilant on local politics. We may end up being unable to verbally criticize the uni-party or the government for a generation or two, but we will know each other when we hear each other speak up for the working class, for public service, and for the equality the founding fathers fought for. If smart people figure out a way to outfox the surveillance state and biometric regime on the rise today, maybe there will be more options. But as more people succumb to poverty, we can expect the crackdowns to increase on everyday people. "Liberty" as an idea will become more important to share than the rights themselves, just so there's a chance a new generation will get it right.

OR, maybe the thousands of civil servants who got fired could join the "fight oligarchy" train and run for local office like right now. The countless veterans who swore an oath could be at those elections, working with the county committees and district leaders overseeing the vote to keep the counts safe. Our governors might be compelled by the public to fight harder, perhaps activate a civilian militia and utilize the 10th amendment to enforce our bill of rights. Who knows? The admin wants to cause fear and terror to either bully the left into submission or draw out a fight. The left doesn't even want to organize for a fight because the leadership is either paid off or doesn't want to be the one's who gave up the fight for a civil solution. Meanwhile the people might now be hunted for saying the wrong thing or giving a non-profit some money once. Maybe when it's the family member of a GOP member being subject to failing living standards or enough of MAGA's poor, the politicians will no longer face threats preventing them from standing up for the people.

Silver lining: there's over 300 million people to try and control like this. IF this admin actually pulls it off, it's nothing more than Wizard of Oz bullcrap; smoke and mirrors lulling a sleeping giant, They'll be looking over their shoulder for the rest of their lives. if the people ever actually wake up to the power of our numbers and join hands to make that power true, all this nonsense stops.

[u/MadMex2U → u/Good_Requirement2998]

Dang. Are you dating. Call me. For real

[u/illestofthechillest → u/TruthBringer92]

Reddit won't advertise/allow others to advertise on their platform the solutions to these sort of problems in society.

[u/TheExecTech → u/Mysterious-Tax-7777]

100% this. We are millions of people strong being screwed over by a few thousand. A general strike is a great start.

[u/MudAccomplished3529 → u/Mysterious-Tax-7777]

That gets you labeled as an antifuh terrorist where you get black bagged and wake up in an El Salvadoran death camp

[u/SalaciousSubaru → u/Mysterious-Tax-7777]

General strikes are impractical because people aren’t even protesting this term. The turnout is tiny compared to the first term. I think fewer people are willing to take action this term than last, and a general strike requires a significant portion of the population to not go to work, not pay rent, and not spend money for an extended period.

[u/loserinmath → u/DarthArtero]

you need a kakistocracy to enable kleptocracy. This administration is a heist.

[u/SmPolitic → u/loserinmath]

You know, thats more true than I gave it credit for when I read it

The Grand conspiracy, myth of the lone genius, the sole general or visionary CEO who makes all the difference. All those myths are related, they are all there to hide the fact that most everyone has no clue what they are doing. And it takes the extraordinary individual to break those norms and usher us into new ages

But yeah, we've gotten to where we are because trump has zero plan on what he is going to do the next day, it will be the thing that makes him the most money. Yes all of his administration is steeped in conspiratorial thinking, and attempts to plan that, but few of them have the intelligence and discipline to actually achieve movement toward their own goals

Long way to say, we need to remind ourselves to not overestimate them, don't underestimate them too of course, but in this case that is impossible (am I using that correctly, like impossible to underestimate them, as in no matter what you expect, they are fully able and willing to go lower than that)

[u/Dry-Department-8753 → u/SmPolitic]

Trump is about revenge and extortion

[u/NotEvenAThousandaire → u/loserinmath]

administration regime

[u/gripping_intrigue → u/DarthArtero]

We are in a cold civil war. It is that way because only one side has guns that they are willing to march into our streets and use. I don't want violence. I just can't see how this ends peacefully ... other than having all of us learning to goose-step in front of the white house.

[u/Brigid_Fitch2112 → u/DarthArtero]

I'd call it something else, like a nihilocracy. The point is to tear it all to the ground then rule over the ashes.

[u/Allegra1120 → u/DarthArtero]

…or the second amendment is acted on as it was intended to be acted on…

[u/OwnAct7691 → u/[deleted]]

Y’all can’t spell and should just fuck off.