It’s impossible for me personally because roughly everyone I know falls into one of two camps
they’re comfortable and their status quo isn’t challenged. They know where their next 9 meals are coming from, and aren’t at Risk of losing employment/residence/ability to feed themselves.
living pay check to pay check, constant fear of not being able to make rent/bills/groceries.
You can’t organize group 1 because they have something to lose and aren’t personally affected. You can’t organize group 2 because they don’t have time, and something like getting arrested at a protest could cost their job/residence/next meal, even when the charges are dropped.
Maybe someone more intelligent and charismatic than me has a shot, but I don’t know how to tell group 1 to risk their safety and the safety of their families for others, or group 2 to risk homelessness, all relying on trust in others.
Do you really think #2 isn’t something that every freedom fighter has dealt with? They don’t stop protesting because their lives are shit. They do it because of it.
Yeah but #2 doesn’t see itself as a unified group. Differences in ethnicity and culture which have been stoked into rift like divides by republicans, who have been doing so for decades, have driven #2 apart.
I’m sure you’ve seen the cookie pile meme with the rich man, the black man and the white man.
Listen friend, you aren’t alone. This situation is exactly why fascists are so successful. The people with something to lose are never the ones to start throwing stones. Fascism, depends on a subjugated class that the majority do not belong to.
Real change will require an incredibly risky challenge to authority. For it to work, that challenge will have to to come from someone who belongs to the privileged class. Luigi threw the first stone, and we love him.
What would the cultural reaction have been if the first person to assassinate a CEO was an ethnic minority?
This is what the powers in charge have learned. There’s not going to be any sudden world-wars or massive camps to gas socialists, they know well enough now that if you just keep everyone fixated on the narrative and theater, but keep people comfortable enough that they rather clock out of work and crash in their bed, but not entirely starving or needy, then you have a complacent population forever.
The issue here is that fascism is self-consuming, and they never keep people comfortable for long. The discomfort has been ramping up over the last year.
It’s impossible for me personally because roughly everyone I know falls into one of two camps
they’re comfortable and their status quo isn’t challenged. They know where their next 9 meals are coming from, and aren’t at Risk of losing employment/residence/ability to feed themselves.
living pay check to pay check, constant fear of not being able to make rent/bills/groceries.
You can’t organize group 1 because they have something to lose and aren’t personally affected. You can’t organize group 2 because they don’t have time, and something like getting arrested at a protest could cost their job/residence/next meal, even when the charges are dropped.
Maybe someone more intelligent and charismatic than me has a shot, but I don’t know how to tell group 1 to risk their safety and the safety of their families for others, or group 2 to risk homelessness, all relying on trust in others.
Do you really think #2 isn’t something that every freedom fighter has dealt with? They don’t stop protesting because their lives are shit. They do it because of it.
Yeah but #2 doesn’t see itself as a unified group. Differences in ethnicity and culture which have been stoked into rift like divides by republicans, who have been doing so for decades, have driven #2 apart.
I’m sure you’ve seen the cookie pile meme with the rich man, the black man and the white man.
Listen friend, you aren’t alone. This situation is exactly why fascists are so successful. The people with something to lose are never the ones to start throwing stones. Fascism, depends on a subjugated class that the majority do not belong to.
Real change will require an incredibly risky challenge to authority. For it to work, that challenge will have to to come from someone who belongs to the privileged class. Luigi threw the first stone, and we love him.
What would the cultural reaction have been if the first person to assassinate a CEO was an ethnic minority?
The group up high would look down their nose and tut tut about the uppity minority because the first group at best are prejudice.
This is what the powers in charge have learned. There’s not going to be any sudden world-wars or massive camps to gas socialists, they know well enough now that if you just keep everyone fixated on the narrative and theater, but keep people comfortable enough that they rather clock out of work and crash in their bed, but not entirely starving or needy, then you have a complacent population forever.
The issue here is that fascism is self-consuming, and they never keep people comfortable for long. The discomfort has been ramping up over the last year.