A coup is underway in the United States, and we must stop pretending otherwise. The signs are unmistakable and accelerating: in just the past 48 hours, Elon Musk’s DOGE commission has seized …
Is your interpretation that this post is intended for politicians to read and take action? If so what do you think they should do?
Like the commenter above us I’m at a loss. Short of resorting to force, there doesn’t seem like an action the average person can take that would accomplish anything. Our politicians don’t seem to be acting in proportion to the threat. And even if they were, Republicans have a (slim) majority. Even if you were to say we’ve reached the point where force is called for, against who?
Write to your elected representatives, organize protests, mutinies, unions and shut down the country. Read the constitution and look for parts that are meant as a safeguard against tyranny.
Little bit of discomfort now beats a lifetime of oppression. Unless you wanna fuck around and find out what it was like living in a totalitarian regime. You’re probs already on the death camp list for being on lemmy.
The 14th amendment prohibits people who did insurrection, but none of it counts if people don’t enforce it.
Even if we did have an uprising, and won, there’d be maga hats for decades whining about how they did nothing wrong. The roots of this problem are deep.
Is your interpretation that this post is intended for politicians to read and take action? If so what do you think they should do?
Like the commenter above us I’m at a loss. Short of resorting to force, there doesn’t seem like an action the average person can take that would accomplish anything. Our politicians don’t seem to be acting in proportion to the threat. And even if they were, Republicans have a (slim) majority. Even if you were to say we’ve reached the point where force is called for, against who?
Write to your elected representatives, organize protests, mutinies, unions and shut down the country. Read the constitution and look for parts that are meant as a safeguard against tyranny. Little bit of discomfort now beats a lifetime of oppression. Unless you wanna fuck around and find out what it was like living in a totalitarian regime. You’re probs already on the death camp list for being on lemmy.
The 14th amendment prohibits people who did insurrection, but none of it counts if people don’t enforce it.
Even if we did have an uprising, and won, there’d be maga hats for decades whining about how they did nothing wrong. The roots of this problem are deep.