Especially when most people have some variation of, "I am going to work myself to death now for a comfortable later" burned into their head from generation after generation of parents.

The, "No Kings" protests basically accomplished nothing beyond a, "neat statistic", in my opinion.

Most people are tuned out, my worksite has 1000+ people at it, no one is talking about this stuff, ever. I am a bit, most people do not care, do not want to risk doing something or have shit going on in their personal lives that take priority.

Anyone critical should do themselves a favor and watch the 1961 film, "Judgment at Nuremberg". The USA judges' servants, when asked if they knew about concentration camps initially denied it. Then, seconds later (paraphrasing), "Even if we did, we are but little people, what could we do?".

P.S. Down voting doesn't change stated reality, sorry.

Thank you! I go to the protests, donate to the causes. We really are fucking helpless and it sucks.

It's a shitty feeling to know that you're doing everything you can and still have to watch our country speed run to authoritarian.

Well, there's the extreme end of things that moderators don't like posts about People love Luigi, though. But I understand not wanting to throw one's life away, even if success pushed the entire world onto a better trajectory.

There's also that low grade sabotage stuff that gets talked about. I think people were posting the ww2 sabotage manual a couple months ago. Stuff like have excessive meetings, make plausible mistakes to gum things up, that kind of stuff. This works better if you're closer to a source of the problems (eg: ICE, mega corps, republican think tanks, etc)

Then there's safer stuff like protests. There's the really safe ones where you just go and march. Those have use, but are kind of limited and won't fix things on their own. You can also do disruptive protests, but you have to be quick and smart, or you have a high risk of going to jail (or worse).

Radicalizing your friends also can be planting seeds. Maybe those will grow.

You could run for office, but that's slow and expensive.

There's probably other stuff, too, but I'm running out of steam here.

Im honestly tired of assholes telling us how to deal with this.

One, if you don't live here don't act like you would be all Badass. If you are, by all means, come to America and show us.

Two, realize the vast majority of this country didn't care in November and still doesn't care now. You're not fomenting some revolution with a seriously paltry amount of the population and especially not with the environment you described.

It's not defeatism- it's realism. Most people dgaf. That is the current situation.

Tell us how to fight back against one of the most highly militarized police forces in the world and the most powerful army in the world?

Afghani peasants did it. The Iraqis did it. The Vietnamese did it.

You never fight an enemy on their terms. The military control the guns. American civilians control EVERYTHING ELSE. Authorities can only be in one location. Citizens are everywhere.

Organize.

Block roads. Obstruct government and commerce. Hit infrastructure. Dump manure in the streets like the French. Stop garbage pickup. Bring society to its knees.

If those nations I mentioned can do it then surely the "home of the brave" can too.

The people in the Soviet Union got rid of a militarily powerful totalitarian state. It's not impossible. The situation in the US is nowhere near as oppressive as that, at least not yet.