• Bloomcole@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    It takes time to organize resistance amongst a pacified and stupefied populace

    The second part of that sentence, is the reason for my statement, that it will not happen.
    It didn’t and time is not going to fix that.
    Where is that organising or even credible groups that would do that?
    They are basically going to cry online until 2028 and that’s it.

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      1 day ago

      Trying to unseat a democratically elected president is not going to have enough support. Now if he tried to serve a 3rd term you might see the idea of violence gain traction. If a Democrat president tried to serve a 3rd term there would definitely be some violence coming from the right as well.

      But for now, most of the pacified masses are comfortably under the illusion that the government is still for the people. The price of everything is starting to cause doubt, but the wakening is very slow. In the US the real struggle is a class struggle, Dem vs Rep is mostly a distraction.

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      2 days ago

      There are several leftist groups that have really ramped up their organizing. The PSL is explicitly building a Marxist vanguard party, the DSA has seen dramatic membership increases, and more.

      A successful revolution doesn’t need a majority of the population to support it if the organization and strategy is there.

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          15 hours ago

          That’s why they’re focusing on organization right now, to build up the power to lead a revolution. Obviously there is no successful revolution right now, it needs to be built.

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        1 day ago

        dramatic membership increases

        That is a few 1000’s.

        There simply isn’t enough left-wing.
        And if they did try something the Blue MAGATS would rather fight them than the fascists.
        I’m sure there are a lot more clueless people feeling ‘radicalised’ and think they’re going hardcore by following Bernie the Sheepdog or AOC.

        I feel sorry for the few percent worth saving but pragmatically I’m glad it came to this.
        It’s accelerating the inevitable decline of US power and the Blue MAGA get a taste of what they do to the rest of the world constantly.

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          1 day ago

          Well if you want to resign yourself to pessimism that’s your prerogative, but don’t kid yourself that you’re any different from the whining American leftists you’re complaining about.

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            18 hours ago

            That’s realism.
            And I’m not whining, I love to see that country go down faster under Trump.
            There are a handfull of people worth saving, 97% or red or blue MAGAts.