Nearly a third of Americans – 30% – say people may have to resort to violence in order to get the country back on track, according to the latest PBS News/NPR/Marist poll.
It’s a sharp rise from 18 months ago, when 19% of Americans said the same.
There is no historical precedent for an electoral solution to a descent into fascism.
There is no historical precedent for an electoral solution to massive wealth inequality.
30%, 50%, 70% means nothing if no one takes action.
The French, the orcas, allegedly Luigi. We have to follow their example. Anything less is just glazing at how “comfy” sitting on the frying pan feels.
I only glanced the article but a question we need to answer first is what exactly is violence?
It seems straightforward but in multiple countries now i have read politicians making claims about violent mobs while in effect it was destruction of property.
Aggression isn’t violence so i am curious how many people say one thing while meaning the other.
Fundamentally, elections were designed to be a peaceful alternative to the peasantry revolting against the government and beheading their king. As Americans come to grip with the reality that their elections are meaningless, their politicians are bought and their only alternative to fascism is fascism-lite with a pride pin (no trans ppl allowed though) this attitude will continue to fester.
Peaceful general strikes would be a better first option imho
You can’t argue nazis out of your government. Churchill didn’t convince Hitler to back out of Poland over a friendly cuppa.
Trump certainly does, or at least it’s what he claims.
Just because it will probably be, doesn’t mean you have to initiate it first. Not only is there a lot of preparation that needs to go towards a revolution that isn’t just arming and shooting, but it’s also better if the other side is the one to initiate it first. First is getting rid of the delusion that the federal government hasn’t been corrupted beyond repair, getting rid of the delusion that you can work inside a system that’s now exponentially worse than it was 4 years ago and somehow fix it. Then you can look at your own history and where power can actually be consolidated, and begin preparing knowing you are working against compromised social networks with the next generation of Cambridge Analyticas so you can’t rely on ignoring the elephant in the room.
America, you have the right to bear arms for a reason.
Historically, it has always taken violence to remove fascists from power.
Guns do not protect you from Fox News.
I disagree with Lemmy (and the growing public sentiment), but for the opposite extreme reason: we are beyond violence changing things. This is a propaganda/reality war, and truth doesn’t really matter.
violence is already happening, it’s just that people are too scared to fight back against it
not only that people not close to areas of violence are still too content, because they have thier creature comforts with them.
Haha, it’ll never happen.
Most are too complacent, comfortable, and mollycoddled to do anything. They’ll just try to wait it out and hope that it’ll change at the next election …not realising that if there is a next election that it’ll probably be rigged, to quote the orange child rapist himself “you’ll never need to vote again, we’ve got it sorted”.The daft thing is you don’t need to have a massive civil war to end this bullshit. You just need some backbone and to target the orange paedo from all directions and not let him have any time or space to do his evil shit. Then once he’s out, or dead from the inevitable stress induced heart attack, go after his cronies. He’s the biggest manbaby that’s ever lived, use it against him.
define back on track
Not fascism?
you mean covert fascism. many of the elements were there, it’s just out in the open now.
That’s your interpretation, but this could also be an indicator of fascists becoming more violent. Which is terrifying.
So what, are we supposed to ask fascist to only violate us slightly?
doing infrequent protests hasnt helped one bit especially if not large numbers like other countries do it, if the enemy knows you arnt going for thier HEADS, they will just laugh and move on.
also people are unwilling to boycott/generally strike, because they sitll have thier creature comforts, plus all the propaganda against protesters in general, i think the staged eco-protests(the ones that defaced public things, were funded by the oil/gas industry) over the years was just testing the waters.
This is exactly how it’s being orchestrated. Pit the people against each other so the politicians and wealthy can get away with literal murder.
We are being governed by the “Epstein Elite”, literal pedophiles and sex traffickers and the idiots that kneel to them.
culture wars crap= aka, anti-wokeness, antivaxx, anti-trans.
not class wars=billionaires vs the not .01%
