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I always wonder… what’s sort of big ideas do you have for mobilizing a nation of disparate people?
I doubt you’ve ever successfully wrangled 3 mates to get a pizza order together, much less a nationwide protest.
My question is "then what". I have yet to see anyone actually set a goal and terms of victory. How many people will be needed and what is the end goal? If we make an arbitrary threshold at say 50 million, what then? Are they just still going to protest a couple times per year, or are they supposed to start burning factories down and lobbing heads off of the ruling class? How, and who, is going to make the people do that?
I wholeheartedly support the american people doing something, but as long as there isn't an actual plan I can't see it having any chance of success.
The "then what" seems to be to show people that the current administration isn't working, at least from what I can see. And, weirdly enough, it has sort of worked so far. Democrats have flipped a lot of Republican-held seats in special elections up until now, and they even have a real chance of flipping a senate seat in Texas, of all states.
Assuming we have a fair election (or as fair of one as we can) in November, there is an opportunity to at least severely limit Trump's power. This, of course, is predicated on a lot, including Schumer giving two shits about the people for once (which is a stretch), but it's not nothing.
Worst case? You've already mobilized millions. Getting them to start rioting doesn't take much once there's a spark.
How else do you plan to mobilize millions of people? Telling them "ok we'll protest for two years then start guillotining the bourgeoisie" is going to turn away most people. Saying "show up here and chant your lungs out" is much more palatable, and at least has a chance to accomplish something, even if relatively small.
Talarico is a possibility, but I can't vote. One needs a fixed address in Texas. I'm working on that. But it's fucking infuriating that the people who run our state from our own city hate us and wish us to die.