Federal immigration agents swarm Minneapolis high school, handcuff staff and fire chemical irritants at students. Safety concerns prompt school closure.
This is what it looks like when fascism is in the midst of overthrowing a country. And old-school democracy has very few defences against these tactics.
Passivism does allow for self defence and, in many cases, the defence of others.
They’re trying to provoke us out in the open. They’ve been trying to normalise violence against us (and have become alarmingly effective).
A few people have commented places where this has happened before; where government has been captured by the far right. Historians have identified key moments where a different action or approach had a high chance of changing the outcome. If we look at current events temporaly through the lens of those key moments, we can be far, far better informed.
I know some people have been doing that.
eta: We’re running Democracy2.0, and many more versions have been developed in the past 200 years. We’re driving a constitution designed to be transported by carriage. It’s incompatible with our recent technology.
This is what it looks like when fascism is in the midst of overthrowing a country. And old-school democracy has very few defences against these tactics.
Passivism does allow for self defence and, in many cases, the defence of others.
They’re trying to provoke us out in the open. They’ve been trying to normalise violence against us (and have become alarmingly effective).
A few people have commented places where this has happened before; where government has been captured by the far right. Historians have identified key moments where a different action or approach had a high chance of changing the outcome. If we look at current events temporaly through the lens of those key moments, we can be far, far better informed.
I know some people have been doing that.
eta: We’re running Democracy2.0, and many more versions have been developed in the past 200 years. We’re driving a constitution designed to be transported by carriage. It’s incompatible with our recent technology.