AJ Sadauskas on Nostr: nprofile1q…srqac Have you ever read a history book about World War 2, and wondered ...

nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpq43zwu5kcnfj7kezc4xyqjeq9rzpk065pmm8ew3pn7vpxs429erlqjsrqac (nprofile…rqac) Have you ever read a history book about World War 2, and wondered why the mainstream parties didn't put up more of a fight in the final days of the Weimar Republic?

Well, you're seeing it replay itself right now.

Many mainstream pro-business conservatives, and the corporate interests that back them, will gladly side with the fascists. Even where they don't totally agree with their agenda.

And then the more moderate or centrist small-l liberal politicians fail to acknowledge or comprehend that the rules have changed.

They think that they're still in an environment where both major parties (or coalitions) fundamentally accept the democratic process, the constitution, and the rule of law.

But it's no longer two sides of the same liberal-democratic coin. The far right are a totally different coin.

So you have one side that still believes in liberal democracy, or a form of it.

And you have the other side that weaponises the language of liberal democracy ("freedom" "free speech") against its opponents when it's expedient, but bears no allegiances to the principles themselves.

What the Democrats should be doing now is working under the assumption that there will not be free and fair national elections in America in the future.

They should be organising grassroots face-to-face movements and building coalitions.

They need to be building or strengthening alternative channels of communication and centres of power. (Think independent media, trade unions, the NAACP, etc.)

They should be organising regular mass demonstrations. We're talking a million people sprawling out from Times Square or in Central Park. Two million blocking Wilshire and Santa Monica Blvds in LA. A mass occupation of Facebook or Google headquarters. A nationwide general strike.

Everything the regime does should be delayed or blocked in Congress, then challenged through the courts.

They should be planning how to stop this regime's worst acts, remove it from power, and then how to rebuild the American Federal Government from the ground up.

Because in the unlikely event that a free and fair election is held in 2028, AND their candidate gets a fair hearing in the media and online, AND they manage to win control of the Whitehouse and both houses of Congress, AND there's a peaceful handover of power, AND there's no "hanging chad" ruling from the Supreme Court...

(Nothing in that previous paragraph should be taken for granted right now.)

Even if all those things happen.

They're basically going to have to do a full reboot of the US Federal Government, replacing every senior position in the US Federal Public Service with competent and qualified people.

And then the work begins.

Frankly, from the outside, there appears to be a canyon right now between where the Democrats are right now, and where they should be if they want liberal democracy in America to survive.

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