Cory Booker sets a record with marathon Senate speech. Will it rally anti-Trump resistance?
Cory Booker sets a record with marathon Senate speech. Will it rally anti-Trump resistance?
It’s a nice gesture but we’re far past the time for nice gestures. We’re quickly approaching a dictatorship. Talking in the senate is not enough, and it won’t be rallying anyone that hasn’t been rallied already. Revolutionary action is required for a true anti-fascist resistance.
One of the ways you sleep walk into a dictatorship is by "complying in advance". We may be on our way to a dictatorship but there's no need to roll out the carpet for it. Booker is doing a good thing by using his platform while he still has one.
There may be no way out of this without violence and bloodshed, but that doesn't make non-violent, more conventional forms of resistance useless. They work as force multipliers. I support Booker and I also don't think the Tesla takedown people are terrorists.
I agree that we shouldn’t accept it, I just don’t think doing anything within the system matters at this point, hence my emphasis on revolutionary action. There’s peaceful action that is outside of the system and directly against it that would be better right now than anything that can be realistically done from within. If we take out the “realistically” part there’s a fuck ton more the Democrats could be doing to combat our imminent collapse. A decent gesture by one man of the massive group complicit in establishing a dictatorship simply falls on deaf ears.