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Quantum Kitty's avatar

It it feels at times as if we are all just fooling ourselves - telling ourselves that there's a way out of this - we keep talking about marching and writing our leaders in Congress and making phone calls and sending money and posting our anger and we're slipping farther and farther behind. I think we're caught up in a fantasy that evil will be destroyed. It might be, but I think it's going to be a long time before all of this damage is corrected. After this Iran debacle, after hearing what McConnell said today about people will get used to not having Medicaid, after hearing reports of the environment falling farther and farther into chaos, after watching days of inhumane treatment of human beings and promises of more to come, I am with you and wonder what is the way out of this? I don't see it, I'm not reading it, I'm not hearing it. It's all just this noise of Talking Heads, debating day after day after day about Trump's cruelty, his chaos, the insanity, all the powerful people who back this animal. I am not seeing a way out of this. 🥺

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Patrick Munson MI's avatar

Look, here is a plan.

Protests continue

Hands Off

No Kings, June (this is the last protest that focuses on Trump)

It is Our Country, July (this reclaims our country)

UNITE, late July early August (This calls us to order as a single unit with a common task)

Each protest has to be larger. More focused and with stronger leadership. Each protest has to be better informed at how to deal with physical treats, infiltration, and must avoid mixed messaging.

This messaging needs to reach out more and more to our foreign allies asking them to join us in protesting this problem that we know is affecting the whole world. We acknowledge that it is our problem but we also know that our world is a precious and contained space where what we do affects everybody else.

The purpose of continuing protests is to let both houses of the congress know unequivocally that if they do not end this presidency and clean out the MAGA P-2025 Christian National Authoritarian cult that we will end their political carriers. Their opponents will need money to defeat them and no amount of money is going to save them. We need them to be certain of this.

Protest 5 Congress, Do Your Job

This needs to be huge, and it needs to have a clear focus in DC at the capitol building. (no attention to the WH) We need to get real about the fact that although many of us would like to ‘work local’ and build a ‘grass roots, something’’’’ that this is a national problem and must be solved on the national stage.

And we must also think to the future while we defeat this past. What do we want? What do we care about? What makes us Americans?

Honesty, Ethics, Responsibility, Inclusion, the Rule Of Law, Separation of church and state.

(I frankly don’t know why I have to be the one to put something out there. Surely there are smarter people than I, but where are they? Michael what exactly is your plan?)

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Vanessa Williams's avatar

Actually, I think Gary Kasparov has it right: the only way to win this is to take to the streets *and stay there* until you get what you want. Protesting once a month or whatever is not enough. The media doesn’t report on it enough. Trump et al don’t care enough, etc. Look at history. Ukrainians on the Maidan, for example. The successful resistance movements are those where people go out to protest and do not go home until they have won! Good luck to you all, from Canada 🇨🇦🫡

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ZU's avatar

True. that's the way to win back AMERICA✌️🇺🇸

from Europe with love

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