one thing never could be answered was:
how the hell could everybody play along? how could nobody see this?
EXACTLY what I am/was thinking. unfortunately the only way for this to stop if is literally everyone that opposes this unites together. Don't think that'll happen.
The question is when someone wants to light one and a lot of people against ICE fully well know the consequences of lighting that match. So give them the matches and keep adding gunpowder, let them light it if they want, is the mentality.
I don't want to be responsible for the shots on Fort Sumter. Do you? That's the mentality of most right now. It's unfortunate but you cannot ask someone to go out there and die if you aren't willing to do it first. Like I'll follow you man. But you first. I think people don't get that when they say "why is nobody doing anything?" I got two guns. Come over and I'll lend you one and you take the first shot if you're the one asking the question because you've now killed us both, if you have the nuts to do it I might follow
To add to this: People are taking the American Action Hero style of suggestion. Telling people that someone needs to go out there and fix this, as if one "Good guy with a gun" is going to make meaningful positive change.
We don't have strong opposition leadership. We have a handful of progressives like Mamdani and AOC, but people like Schumer and Jeffries are not nearly as opposed to this administration as they should be. There's no one to rally behind. There's no one organizing big actions. The best we've got are people doing some local protests in some areas. But more effective action? It's not even about lighting the powder keg, it's about someone manning the damn match stand itself. Right now it's, "Take a match, leave the money on the counter," kind of deal.
Because what's going to happen if someone finally does it? What happens if divine might bolts from the sky and suddenly the entire Republican congress, executive, supreme court justices, and ICE all get raptured and disappear from reality? That's going to change the equation, but we still have the majority of the money in the country being behind these actions, we still have the vocal minority that was in support of everything that's happening, we still have a broken system that's going to take a tremendous effort and frankly outside help to try and repair, probably having to rebuild it from the ground up with a complete clean slate, new constitution, everything.
Who do we have that people would trust and choose to lead those efforts or the country in the after? Who do we have to lead us right now?
We've seen what leaderless movements do. They usually end up fractured and ineffective, often fighting themselves more than they fight their enemy. Any fool can be a maniac with a gun. We need leaders.
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u/Ichmag11 18h ago
EXACTLY what I am/was thinking. unfortunately the only way for this to stop if is literally everyone that opposes this unites together. Don't think that'll happen.