Bernie Sanders and AOC’s Rallies Can Become a Mass Movement
Bernie Sanders and AOC’s Rallies Can Become a Mass Movement
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Bernie Sanders and AOC’s Rallies Can Become a Mass Movement
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I am glad they are “Fighting Oligarchy Tour” but I need them to start organizing a resistance. I am scared and I have no idea what to do anymore.
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I mean, his campaign slogan is literally "Not me. Us."
if people are assuming that an octogenarian and a House Rep for a single tiny district in NY are going to singlehandedly rescue the country, they're wildly mistaken how large scale resistance counterculture movements actually gain traction.
"I'm too tired today, can't AOC just do it for me?" is pretty weak. maybe Americans just aren't capable of organizing and fighting?
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Find your local leftist gun club if you can.
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but I need them to start organizing a resistance
I'm saying it now; they won't. I can lay out my reasoning, but they just won't. Any resistance will have to come from You the People and be led by You the People.
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I'm sure they're also aware of the risk of forming an actual resistance.
An armed resistance can't form with such prominent figures. The GOP would see to that.
Additionally, it would fundamentally break OPSEC of who is organizing it. Public figures are easy targets for the FBI.
Suspend everything you know for a moment and pretend that Waltz was actually a member of the resistance. He's the one that pulled the journalist into the Signal group. In this pretend world, he did it so that he could show how bad the administration is at their own OPSEC. He would have to then maintain the cover of being a good right-wing nut job less he be found out.
Ok we can turn back to reality now, because we all know if that were true, Waltz would be dead. But my point is, a good resistance is quiet until actions are taken. But to build a resistance, you also need people who can get connected, in big cities, and know that there are other like minded people. Would be a real shame if like, 34,000 people turned up to one of these protests and started talking about things that they can do together to fight back.
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Honestly, if Kamala or hell even Obama came out as resistance leaders, we'd be in a much better position to take Trump.
We need allies with something to lose so we can trust them.
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If you still think the old guard center-right corporate Democrats can get us out of this, you have really had your head in the sand since about 2000.
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I've been disappointed that Obama was center-right since 2009. Biggest letdown politician I've ever seen.
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