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Trump ‘manufactured crisis’ to justify plan to send national guard to Chicago, leading Democrat says
(www.theguardian.com)
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There's several thousand things we "can" do and hit him with, but the problem is we we're not doing those things. Or more specifically, we have not done of this broadly for so long that we're now relying on the goddamn democrats to be our final bastion of defense against losing democracy entirely. We let too many angry young men become incels and let our moron neighbors retreat to their own online spaces unchallenged. It's set-in now, it's a stain. We will never undo it.
No, seriously, they're deploying military forces on political enemy cities, our time for making his base raise their brow and go "Hmnn! What is he UP TO!" is long over. They sidestepped the Epstein thing and just plowed right through, and most of the base moved on too. They have the judicial branch, they have house and senate, they do not care.
We can keep talking about it when we talk to people already shaky in their support, but we're moving into endgame territory, it's going to take some huge, catastrophic event to bring this to a head, such as national guard soldiers and deaths on one or both sides, or some other bloodbath that changes American narratives. Right now in sites like Lemmy and Reddit most of the people are still not taking this seriously are chanting "nothing ever happens" as they sit there doing nothing. Gen Z broadly wants to check out and roleplay and play games right up until they can't anymore.
If you can get people rallied to get involved in social programs, local elections and city/county policy, it would be our best bet for saving the future, even if it takes generations now. But it's gonna be shit for a long time because too many people who actually cared hid.