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Trump is reportedly taking aim at Canada and raising alarms about its ‘vulnerability’
(www.independent.co.uk)
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I never said don't vote.
I said don't depend on simply voting to fix things.
Don't sit around for another year expecting the midterms will fix things.
Do you think complaining on the internet will fix things?
Voting is an action people can do. Once people are able to do some form of action, they could be encouraged to further action. Americans are currently below the bar of even voting. You think they're going to do more than voting if they can't even do that?
Y'all are so much in love with the romanticized myth of the American revolution you believe that if you write some pretty words about freedom and equality there will be another "clean revolution" that will solve all of your problems. The reality is that your "founding fathers" were slave masters, their pretty words were hypocrisy meant to fool regular people into fighting and dying so that the wealthy slave masters could get wealthier by killing the indigenous people living to the west and taking their land. People were tortured for any dissent, there were massive numbers of refugees from the US during the revolution because of how oppressive the government was.
All of your rights actually came from voting, not from the bullshit fairy tale about "founding fathers" they indoctrinated you into believing from a very young age.
lol
What would you suggest we do?
Only one thing will help, to organize. Methinks innumerable groups on a general forum cooperating on what they agree on. Federated, it could be fediverse, should be, we just need to get started.
Cooperating publicly and privately as we see fit, we could find and groom good candidates for 2028. Ones suppoeting popular reform. It would not take that many people for that end.
Get a gun for self defense and go to the range at least once a month. Organize community watches and mutual aid networks with your neighbors. Start creating relationships which pull away from the central supply chain, form community networks to supply needs and services locally and mutually: tool library, seed library, multiple large community gardens (no I'm not naive enough to think this will replace a grocery store), and any other services that are needed.
If you have the means, buy another gun, preferably a rifle or shotgun. Train with that. Start encouraging others in your community to arm themselves for self defense. Form a well organized militia.
Distribute organizing to others so you don't burn out. Help others start their journey of community action. Then they start book clubs to read theory and praxis, then they can teach foraging techniques. Eventually, others in your community are learning skills which you didn't have time for or didn't interest you. That's the point of community, not everyone has to be good at everything. Now you have people who can set up a local intranet with copper wires and servers to maintain crucial information offline, in case the internet goes down or is shut off by the government. You have those who can knit faster than you've ever seen and are providing socks and hats for everyone.
The Utopian and end goal of all this is to form resilient and thriving communities not dependent on the state and corporations for their needs. And yes, that would take a long time to get there. But for me, my admittedly Herculean dream is eventually those community gardens would become vertical farms and inspire other communities to practice the same. The construction crews in your area would become coops and with their needs provided would slowly start doing community projects, that the doctors and teachers would separate themselves from the state apparatus and serve their neighbors in mutual methods, bringing their passion and skills into the community.
But even if we don't get to that end stage, or if that doesn't appeal to you, mutual aid is still wonderful and any bit of it is beneficial and forms networks of trust. I'm not saying don't vote, but know that the state and powerful are counting on you to place your trust in that one action and nothing else. Don't give them that satisfaction.