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What @StillIRise1963 said.
Keep in mind that because they have nothing to lose from wrecking everyone and everything to lose if they don't try, this election — and the whole fight against fascism — is an asymmetric battle. We have to win this election •three times• over:
1. At the ballot box
2. In the courts
3. On the streets
…and that’s just the election. #uspol
https://mastodon.world/@StillIRise1963/113014262749954851
This is not meant to induce doom or despair. I am ardently, ferociously anti-despair. Despair is surrender. We need to do the opposite of surrender.
We are the opposite of doomed: we are in a moment of possibility. We really can do this. And to do it, we need to be real about the scope and nature of the work ahead.
@inthehands It feels like this has been metastasizing for a long time, that we (as a country) haven't been eternal-vigilancing hard enough for decades, possibly for my entire life, so now we have to go twice as hard for a long-ass time to make up that ground.
@inthehands in France, even the anarchist went voting to avoid an extrem right government that was seen "as sure as done"
Hope is a moving verb.
@inthehands @StillIRise1963
It's not just that they have everything to lose. It's that they're about to be in the "if I can't have you, no one can have you" stage.
Anyone who knows anything about domestic violence knows that the most dangerous part of an abusive relationship is when the abused finally leaves
@kims @StillIRise1963
100%. This is all abuser patterns at societal scale, up and down the festering line.
@inthehands @kims @StillIRise1963 We say make the abusers wake up on fire then. Some people can never be reasoned with, and those bitches gotta sleep sometime
Not to be a broken record, but self defense against hate fueled violence is a human right
@inthehands As on #Jan6, it is law enforcement that needs to deal with their violence. Street brawls play into their hands.
@ccdudley85
I don’t trust LE to handle this unsupervised, especially local police, since so many of them are themselves outright fascists. I’m hopeful that we have better security planning this time that we did in 2020, that the people working security are actually vetted, and that we have a population ready to march in the streets in support of democracy if necessary. But truly, I don’t know what to expect or how to handle it.
@ccdudley85 @inthehands Sadly, it's not that easy, a shocking portion of law enforcement members hold a MAGA worldview, just look at the police reactions to BLM protests vs Jan 6 or Charlottesville. The realist in us tells us that anti-MAGA people will be on our own if it kicks off again. Luckily, a large portion of active and retired servicemembers are anti-MAGA
@strangeculprits @inthehands I suppose that if law enforcement fails their oath to defend the Constitution, we'll muster out to do their job for them. But they deserve the opportunity to do the job they signed up for and not to have to deal with a counter protest. Local governments asked activists to stay home on #Jan6 and that was the right call.
@ccdudley85 @strangeculprits
Both. I live near the epicenter of the George Floyd uprising; ask me about “letting LE do their job.” My answer will be that they •started• the uprising.
But I do have some hope that local police are not cut from the same cloth as, say, National Guard.
@inthehands @StillIRise1963 Some demographics of the polity already know this, having to fight every day of their entire life to defend their right to exist. Whenever you win, your prize is to do it again tomorrow.
If we all pull together, winning becomes easy enough to grab the daily W before morning beverages.
It's never over. Not until the last fascist-supremacist is dead, and the last written scrap of their pig-maggot philosophy buried in their ashes.