Thank you, John, for your life-changing journalism. Here's what I'm doing: I'm talking to my friends, and going to community meetings, encouraging people to take action. I'm attending every protest I can, (thanks 50501,) calling my useless Texas senators and my great Congressman Lloyd Doggett, and looking for other ways to nudge the system. I'm also reading and talking to people about non-violent resistance, which includes not just fun marches and tedious networking, it includes the risk of violence against oneself. The commenter above makes a great point about living like the Amish. Most of us are not there yet, but we CAN join boycotts, support strikes, and take any and many of the small steps above and prepare for the movement I've been waiting all my life. I hope we can move beyond endless and useless arguments about whether or not Democrats are of any further use, (they are,) and over what is the correct ideology, in order to form a coalition of people who want to stop the massive suffering as well as the destruction of Democracy the oligarchs are instigating right now. I hope I'm brave enough to take what ever part I can in this. If people wake up, we have power. If people choose to stay asleep to what's happening so they can continue their consumption in relative peace. we're done for. And that includes the planet, not just the USA.
Thank you, John, for your life-changing journalism. Here's what I'm doing: I'm talking to my friends, and going to community meetings, encouraging people to take action. I'm attending every protest I can, (thanks 50501,) calling my useless Texas senators and my great Congressman Lloyd Doggett, and looking for other ways to nudge the system. I'm also reading and talking to people about non-violent resistance, which includes not just fun marches and tedious networking, it includes the risk of violence against oneself. The commenter above makes a great point about living like the Amish. Most of us are not there yet, but we CAN join boycotts, support strikes, and take any and many of the small steps above and prepare for the movement I've been waiting all my life. I hope we can move beyond endless and useless arguments about whether or not Democrats are of any further use, (they are,) and over what is the correct ideology, in order to form a coalition of people who want to stop the massive suffering as well as the destruction of Democracy the oligarchs are instigating right now. I hope I'm brave enough to take what ever part I can in this. If people wake up, we have power. If people choose to stay asleep to what's happening so they can continue their consumption in relative peace. we're done for. And that includes the planet, not just the USA.