Lame Liberals Hopelessly Out Of Touch
(Caption: I took this photo about 10 years ago in front of the NJ DEP building in Trenton, NJ. I think it was at a anti-fracking protest.)
The NY Times ran a page one lead story (Sunday edition) today on the formation of a US “Resistance” to what is increasingly looking like a Trump re-election, see:
(parenthetically, they really tap danced around the collapse of the Biden Presidency and failed to even mention real resistance movement formation, like the campus encampments and organizing for protests at the Democrats’ August convention in Chicago. Instead, we get this:
Activist groups that spent the four years of Mr. Trump’s presidency organizing mass protests and pursuing legal challenges, ultimately helping channel that energy into persuading voters to oust him from power in 2020, are now realizing with great dread they may have to resist him all over again.)
Sadly, all the same old lame liberals could come up with was stockpiling abortion pills (seriously, no joke), gathering informal groups of Democratic Governors and Attorneys General, and “a new litigation wave”: drafting legal briefs (to a right wing Federalist Society and corporate captured federal court system).
What we need is formation of “popular front” politics and planning and organizing for massive mobilizations of street protests, encampments, and civil disobedience to shut it down and “Refuse Fascism”.
Does anyone see this kind of work being done?
Start the logistics planning and the slogans and flags and banners and songs and signs and fundraising NOW.
But do it off line and don’t use cell phones (the surveillance State is a Panopticon).
[End Note: And if you think I engage in hyperbole, consider that they are quietly seeking to reinstate the draft – check this out, which should be blaring page one headlines:
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2024/05/23/lawmakers-move-to-automate-selective-service-registration-for-all-men/