Then.
These numbnuts are deeply ignorant, profoundly stupid, and utterly incompetent. It's their good luck, and the rest of our misfortunes, that their MAGAt party is even more ignorant and stupid and cares nothing for competence so long as they get the performative spite and malice they crave.
And there is no remedy for them in the Constitutional system. No checks. No balances. Nothing.
The United States is now a Stupid Fascist state in fact, if not in name, and if We the People don't want that, well...history shows the path from autocracy to republicanism is ugly, brutal, and very often futile at least in the short and even medium term.
The Revolution of 1789 led to military dictatorship by 1800 and decades of ruinous war. The Revolution of 1917 led to partisan dictatorship by 1921 and decades of brutal immiseration. Our own revolution was only prevented from a similar fate by a unique combination of individual probity and isolation from neighboring Great Powers.
So, no. There is no Good Way past this disaster.
The trope of 1776 is that roughly a third of the then-American colonies was Loyalist, a third were rebels, and the remaining third just wanted to keep their heads down. Logistical difficulties, strategic incoherence, and Great Power rivalry with France ensured the rebellion became revolution and overthrow of the ruling order.
We certainly have ruling incoherence and economic difficulty from the fascists.
But we have no Power to come to our aid, and the internal division is even less favorable; the fascists run from about 30% - the true hardcore MAGAts - to 40% and the "heads-down" lumpen herdbeasts are another 30-40%. The police and military will obey The Chief Executive; there is no competing "Garde National" or rebellious militias to opposed regime gunfire with rebel gunfire.
We are, in fact...
I honestly have no words of hope or encouragement. I can't figure out a way to overthrow these sonsofbitches short of actual violent rebellion, and history also shows how often that goes badly for the rebels.
The time for phone banking and postcard writing is past.
But I can't stand the idea of simply bending the knee to these people. Is it time for building IEDs? How can that ever work?
I can only stand, shaking with rage, as my country devolves before my burning eyes.
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It occurred to me two years ago that they way to get the feds to really address gun control would be if a significant enough of us on the left of center convinced enough Black people--particularly males--to own guns. THEN you'd see real gun control. Which, of course, would totally show the hand of White control. But we're beyond that. Now all right-thinking people need to prepare to do whatever we can. Particularly us older folks, who know something about history, and have our better days behind us. WE can make a stand when things go really south.
Google "Mulford Act"; that's exactly what happened when the original Black Panthers turned out armed.
Sadly, at this point it's a sort of Fort Zinderneuf kind of stand. If it's just us - that is, if the GOP doesn't splinter and the lumpen middle just keep on keeping their heads down - we're doomed.
Still worth the fight, if only for our own sakes. It's like the tale of the individual who would stand, alone, outside the Nixon White House with his candle. When asked if he really thought that his silent protest would change anything about the person inside or his people, he replied: "Oh, no. I don't do it to change them. I do it so they won't change me."
Thank you for that Mulford Act info. There's nothing new under the sun, or in this case, The Shadow in our hearts and minds. "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows!"
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