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Nevermypresident

(781 posts)
1. Good question...I've asked why we aren't marching on D.C. here
Fri Jun 22, 2018, 12:48 AM
Jun 2018

several times and frankly all I get is to get out and vote, concentrate on mid-terms, call your members of Congress etc. (which I have and will continue to).

Ironically, when someone posts about a particular protest, I see "way to go!"



ecstatic

(32,566 posts)
2. I think trump is systematically priming and exhausting Americans
Fri Jun 22, 2018, 12:51 AM
Jun 2018

Training us to accept fascism. Let's face it, if he can get away with the forced separations, he can get away with anything. The executive order was fake and meaningless, so basically nothing has changed.

Hekate

(90,188 posts)
3. I'm sorry you have not noticed that The Resistance is alive and well...
Fri Jun 22, 2018, 12:56 AM
Jun 2018

The Washington Post is crowdsourcing info from around the country as to the locations of child detention centers and foster care -- and publishing the maps

Airline attendants have spoken out about being lied to

A lawyer is working pro bono to assist federal employees who refuse to be complicit

Mayors and governors all over the country are refusing to cooperate with Trump/Sessions

A law firm is working pro bono to help immigrant detainees

A small non-profit put up a Go Fund Me page to collect $1,500 for one person's bail, and was inundated with $17,000,000. Yes, count the zeros.

Newspapers and tv journalists are telling the story.

Hope is alive. WE are not yet those people Trump wants us to be.

Source: Rachel Maddow, this evening.

The_jackalope

(1,660 posts)
6. I don't call speaking out a revolution.
Fri Jun 22, 2018, 01:04 AM
Jun 2018

It will take far more than pro bono lawyers and online GoFundMe donations to topple Trump and his band of flying monkeys. It may take people (maybe many people) who are ready to risk their skin, bones and lives. I'm just not seeing it.

Material comfort is a huge disincentive to revolution.

BigmanPigman

(51,430 posts)
4. When he refuses to open a sealed report from Mueller
Fri Jun 22, 2018, 12:59 AM
Jun 2018

than we know it is time for mass protests. He doesn't have to even show the public Mueller's findings. If his enablers allow him to do this there will be many, many angry people hitting the streets. There is a lot that he can do and we have no control over it. If we lose the midterms and no blue wave saves the day then I see Dems putting all their hopes into Mueller saving the country. When that hope is gone there will be anger which leads to protests.

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
7. Canada, France, Germany and the rest of the world
Fri Jun 22, 2018, 01:05 AM
Jun 2018

already think we’re revolting.

I’m thinking 40% of us are terminally revolting.

Volaris

(10,260 posts)
9. As long as the Internet is still up, it won't happen
Fri Jun 22, 2018, 01:13 AM
Jun 2018

We can continue to entertain ourselves with whatever niche we want, and as long as that's possible most of us probably WONT give a shot about our neighbors or fellow citizens.
Voter Apathy is what keeps Republican politicians in power because if the majority of Americans were forced to go to the polls or pay a fine, they would NEVER win another election, and they know it

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