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And nothing will be done about it.
This is what I find frustrating with Americans ... their country is literally burning down and not enough of them can be bothered to do anything about it.
They believe they can wait until the last possible minute of failure and like some Hollywood movie, they'll save everything at the last possible moment when things are at their darkest and save everything.
It isn't a Hollywood movie .... if no one does anything now or soon ... everything will be lost and no one will save it at the last moment
I got yelled down by a Canadian here on Lemmy yesterday (in much less kind language) that my protesting here in the USA is useless.
Because protesting in the way we typically do it IS useless. We need general strikes, road blockages, storming government buildings and occupying them, things that actually affect people.
Yelling at a building and inconveniencing absolutely no one accomplishes nothing. The media downplays or ignores, like the April 5th protest, anything that doesn't affect money.
The Catch-22 to that is it gives Trump and the GOP the excuse to declare martial law, as they're already itching to do, hugely extending the power of their autocracy.
You're mistaken if you believe they need a non-fabricated reason. The Reichstag will burn on schedule.
I believe that they're deliberately provoking dissenters into the slightest bit of violent action so that they can do exactly that.
Americans have been raised on a white washed version of the Civil Rights Movement that deliberately leaves out the tactics that actually enabled the Civil Rights Movement to succeed.