I will preface this by saying I understand that I am more radical, revolutionary, and extreme of a leftist than most. Despite that, I still ask that you actually engage with this as I’m asking in good faith.

When is enough enough? We have elected a fascist into the highest office and handed the keys to him and his friends. Is now not the time to actually get organized, involved, and armed? In my opinion, the time for peaceful, democratic means of avoiding fascism was before the election. But we have failed to do so, and as such there will soon be a tyrant in power. Are we going to wait until troops are rolling down the street to stage any form of resistance, because by then it’s far too late. Now I want to be clear that I am not advocating for random acts of violence or an insurrection like January 6th. But is this not a point of radicalization? Is this not where we start organizing within our communities and getting involved in mutual aid and resistance? How much more do we need before people are actually ready to stand, fight, and maybe even die to avoid continuing down the path that we are on? Fascism is not on the horizon, it is here. Are we really to do nothing about it as a society except lay down and accept our fate? Because that doesn’t jive with me. That makes absolutely no sense to me.

  • Hildegarde
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    71 million in a country of 262 million adults. 27% voted for fascism. 74 million voted for trump in 2020. This wasn’t a shit towards fascism, but the opposition party utterly failing to win voters.

    The country has never been majority rule. Every modern election has split the country in thirds, about a third votes one way, a third votes the other and a third choses not to vote.

    Over 70% of voting aged americans did not vote for trump.

    • @db2
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      It’s disappeared ballots and a bought electoral college.

      • @[email protected]
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        No, he got >50% of all votes that were cast. The voting system wasn’t the problem this time, the voters were.

        • Hildegarde
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          If the voters are the problem every time, the problem probably isn’t the voters, it’s probably the system. The US always has bad turnout.

          • @[email protected]
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            A turnout between 60 and 70% is actually pretty standard for a Western democracy without mandatory voting.

            The voting system wasn’t the issue, here. The people around you are.