There are lots of protests going on, as well as lots of angry people going to their representatives’ town hall meetings and/or calling and sending messages to them. Unfortunately it’s Congress who has the Constitutional power to act and they’ve abdicated. The Repubs are fully on board with the trump regime and the Dems are in the minority and have very little power. Most of them are just wringing their hands as usual. There are 3 branches of government and two are fascist-ruled. The third (judiciary) has no actual power if the other two don’t abide by their rulings.
It’s hard to know what more the average person can (legally) do right now.
Like this:
https://apnews.com/article/serbia-protest-students-vucic-74fff7381f2d6e6ba084aeb17aa88163
This is in Belgrade, a city with just over a million citizens:
USA has a 40 times bigger population and 9 cities that are bigger than this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_population
I’m not dissing those that actually try do do something, but it’s almost like Americans gave up on democracy and the rule of law.
Or can Americans not see they are about to lose their democracy? And is heading directly towards a totalitarian regime!
Dems (most of them) are just wringing their hands as usual
Exactly, I wonder what it takes to make them wake up? Democracy in USA needs to be restored and reformed, and now is the time to do it.
If democrats are waiting because they believe it will be easier if Trump loses more popularity, they are playing a very dangerous game.
I think our protests will grow in size once people start feeling the more devastating effects in their personal lives. Yes, I do think there’s a lot of denial going on, and there’s lots of gaslighting not only by magat media but also by mainstream media (all owned by oligarchs), with very little coverage of the protests. What little coverage they do, they’re mostly focusing on the tesla/anti-Musk ones, and other things only if they get a lot of social media attention. And lots of misinformation and pro-trump propaganda on social media as well that downplays the severity of the transgressions being perpetrated.
mainstream media (all owned by oligarchs)
Yeah huge problem right there! USA has an idea now that Democrats are left wing! while in reality Democrats are right of the center for most European countries.
Bernie and AOC are moderately left wing, and far from extreme, there is a pretty big left wing spectrum to the left of them too.
But USA lacks political nuances because of the 2 party system ingrained in the way democracy works in USA.
Absolutely no, it has to be Americans who do it, and decide what to do with their country.
I think it’s very dangerous to assume those will be democratic. We are pretty close to Trump arresting political opponents, he has threatened about it already during his first term. And he now calls Tesla protesters terrorists despite they never threatened or harmed anyone!! By declaring them terrorists he can use terror laws against his political opponents.
So I think you mean they THINK they know when the next elections are.
