It’s a pretty classic recipe by now.

Make voters scared and angry by identifying lots of issues (cost of living, security) that are affecting their lives. Shift anger and blame to external group (China, migrants, LGBTQ+). Propose easy and quick solutions that only vaguely work on a surface level (deportation, tariffs, government efficiency) but voters are too angry to think critically by now, take it at face value and vote for false solutions.

Next step once elected is to start dismantle media scrutiny to control the narrative, capture democratic institutions so everything becomes biased against your politician opponents and start to change laws governing elections to consolidate your power.

It’s happening in other places too. Countering this seems hard for other parties. So far it seems to be waiting until the mess being made with the quick and easy solution becomes too big and the other side comes in to clean it up, then getting blamed not everything is fixed and the cycle repeats.

That’s gonna be my copypasta response to any and all Trump related bullshit over the next four years.

“You voted for this.”

Eh, maybe reupload that somewhere else and not directly link to a government website that will certainly log all IPs accessing it.

A party of complicit fucking simpletons …

ftfy

There’s legal ways to disrupt gov agencies. Lots of filings, request emails, memos with freedom of information act, distribute their plans, say ICE or other obvious weapons of oppression. Know where they’re coming from and how. Put obstacles in their way, busted cars, quick cement barriers, figure out how to flood office buildings, disruption is a valid tool, and it’s not always illegal, some of this would be, probably, but also revolutionary suicide, if you aren’t particularly concerned with your mortal coil lone wolf actions could be effective. Of course there’s also breaking people out of holding areas or concentration camps, disrupting their building process, file demands about possible archeological significance, endangered species, zoning issues start a NIMBY call to action, this can even work on a state level, NV held off yucca mountain being used as a national nuclear waste dump for decades, it can be effective. For strictly non violent resistance organized disruption could be effective anyway. Getting people fake documentation that will slow the process down, getting a bank of lawyers or paralegals calling in detention sites demanding release of specific people file paperwork to that effect, even if it’s just them having to legally respond, it slows everything down. Maybe judges can’t get to the office to do their job by some legal but annoying means.

My only problem with FAFO is that they FA but we’re all going to FO.

People forgot Change is a vector quanity not a scalar.

Lib Jan 6 goes like this:

The center-right Joe Biden will use the national guard to put it down before y’all can even get near it, and calling them “far-left extremists” on tv, then trump will tweet: “Sleepy Joe is using ANTIFA to STEAL OUR VICTORY blah blah NEVER SURRENDER!”

Most of them are getting shot and the rest jailed, and when trump takes over, the AG will be pushing for maximum punishment.

This will be his Reichstag Fire and the Enabling Act will pass with bipartisan support.

Lib Jan 6 is just what’s currently happening: asking the Trump transition team politely to sign the necessary paperwork before granting access to top secret information.

That’s the amount of actual resistance we can ever expect from the “institutions are sacred, people are only important if they donate at least $5000 per election season” Dem leadership.

Yeah, just throw a can of gasoline in the fire, watching it explode and burn up everything sounds like a fucking good time.