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As a U.S. citizen, I’m beginning to ask myself how to take more meaningful measures to help bring an end to this behavior. I’m not a political activist and gene
by bicx 9mo ago
As a U.S. citizen, I’m beginning to ask myself how to take more meaningful measures to help bring an end to this behavior. I’m not a political activist and generally try to mind my own business, but that mindset only worked when I felt I could trust the system to self-correct. It seems our judicial system can barely keep up, and Congress is doing next to nothing.
- jleyank 9mo agoAs in any region's system: pay attention, vote, donate, organize even protest. Not voting votes for the winner, which might not be what you want.
- Jensson 9mo agoDepending on your state you vote for the winner regardless who you vote for since its winner takes all.
- TurdF3rguson 9mo agoOh you didn't hear? They're also cancelling the midterms.
- Insanity 9mo agoAnd when this happens, about half the country still will support this demagogue.
- DustinEchoes 9mo agoWe are rapidly approaching the point where that isn’t enough.
- jleyank 9mo agoProtest is ill-defined and open-ended. The other alternative I didn't mention the first time is to get outta Dodge.
- aebtebeten 9mo agoHave you called your members of congress yet?
- cdrnsf 9mo agoGetting involved at the local level is a good place to start. Local governing bodies, city councils and other civic organizations represent meaningful opportunities for change. Congress is too beholden and scared of Trump on the GOP side to do anything meaningful. The democrats are generally spineless. The federalist society and GOP have created a severe ideological imbalance on the supreme court that will have serious ramifications for years to come unless there's a serious effort to pack or reform the institution.
- kurtis_reed 9mo agoProtest
- kcplate 9mo agoTo what end? I think this has become the “feel good that I am doing something about it” approach but it literally has almost zero effect beyond creating rhetoric from the politicians. You need to hold your political leaders responsible with your vote. Don’t just automatically vote for the politicians that are “saying” the right things. Find out what your representatives are “doing” and hold them responsible for their actions or more importantly, inactions.
- morkalork 9mo agoCall your senator and congressman /s
- Avicebron 9mo agoI think we have to acknowledge the grievances of people who got us into this position in the first place and don't stop making those grievances and the tangible steps being taken to solve them known on every public platform available.
- A_D_E_P_T 9mo agoWhat does Greenland have to do with anybody's grievances? That's a serious and non-rhetorical question.
- donkeybeer 9mo agoSome people are just so stupid they are beyond all help. They are eternally offended and will always have made up "grievances". For example one really funny "grievance" is that intermarriage is equal to violent murderous genocide. Its best to laugh these "grievances" out the room.
- lostmsu 9mo agoMove to a swing state and vote.
- tzs 9mo agoOne thing that could help would be for Democrats who live in congressional districts where there is no way a Democrat will ever get elected because there are too many people there who just vote for the candidate with the 'R' by their name on the ballot without actually looking into either candidate's positions to switch their registration to Republican. That way they could vote in Republican primaries. Many if not most of those districts actually have Republican candidates in the primaries who are center right but they lose because primary turnout is very low, largely consisting of just the most extreme voters. For example consider Marjorie Taylor Green (MTG). In the primary the first time she ran against a perfectly normal Republican. I don't remember all the details, but I believe he was a decorated military officer who after the military was a successful businessman and who had server in state offices. MTG was a full on QAnon and other conspiracy theorist believer. But it is mostly the fringe that votes in primaries so she won. And it is a heavily Republican district with many people who don't really follow politics so she got their vote in the general election because they always vote R. Register as a Republican if you are in such a district and vote in the primaries and then maybe we can get back to having sane Republicans winning those districts. For safe Republican districts where they do elect sane Republicans, it is still worth switching registration. Let the current representative from that district know that you are doing this, and promise that if Trump gets upset at their vote on something and bankrolls a primary challenge, you will vote for them in the primary.
- JeremyNT 9mo agoI live in a district like this and the primary is determined by who is endorsed by the President. Also these voters are dumb but they aren't that dumb. Unless you know a person who actually has presented as a Trump supporting republican for the last decade and is secretly willing to switch sides after the election, you're not going to trick them.
- tzs 9mo agoThe point is not to trick anyone. The point is that center right Republicans (the kind that used to win most Republican districts before 2012) could still win if they could make it to the general election. They often can't because most Republican voters, like most Democrat voters, aren't into party politics enough to bother voting in the primaries. It is the voters who are most likely to be to be farthest from the center who vote in the primaries, and these are the ones who don't want a normal center right representative. If Democrats switched parties and voted in the primaries they might be able to counter the usual extreme primary voters so a center right Republican could win.
- afterburner 9mo agoDon't let the people in your life casually get away with promoting fascism. Punish them socially.
- rpiguy 9mo ago[flagged]
- ben_w 9mo agoThey didn't say "think differently", they said "promoting fascism". If you look at J6 attempted self-coup where people were chanting death threats agaisnt the vice president and had a hangman's noose ready and pipe bombs were found and say "that was a peaceful protest", while also looking at the woman who was shot dead through the side window of her car while departing from a group of ICE officers and call that "self defence againsy attempted vehicular manslaughter", you may have a problem. If your reaction to "Punish them socially" is to claim "That’s the most facist thing I’ve ever heard." of the person who essentially just said "stop talking to these people, stop inviting them to parties and stuff", when your fellow citizens are dying at the hands of federal officers who are being given defacto immunity, you may have a problem. The current administration already punishes people for thinking differently with a lot worse than not inviting them to dinner; is the kind of regime that creates refugees and asylum seekers out of its own citizens, who flee from it.
- jimmydddd 9mo agoThe problem is that after years of people crying "facism" for mean tweets, lowering coprorate taxes and eforcing a national border, the term has lost any meaning. Maybe we need a new term?
- croon 9mo agoThe people crying fascism years ago were right, and now it's here. It hasn't lost meaning, too many people just liked the fascism.
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- kcplate 9mo agoStart holding the opposing party responsible to run good candidates for office and adopt a platform that can appeal to independents. The knee jerk reaction is to run your party’s candidates and platform to the opposite extreme. Instead you should move towards the center. I really hope the democrats realize this (some do and are speaking out) soon.