Feeling betrayed by increased minority support for Trump, Black women say they’re stepping back

I totally understand your sentiment, but I also fully understand this sentiment:

I have no goals to be a martyr for a nation that cares nothing about me

Does it matter if your voice is heard if nobody listens?

But, as indivuals, do they owe us the effort of helping our voices be heard? Because that's what this is actually about: that traditionally, black women have been some of the strongest organizers within the Democratic party. The work they do helps others get their voices heard through their votes. This year they basically got told that nobody cared, including from black men. When this is about black women helping others get their voice heard, it's pretty clear that right now nobody cares about the work they've put in to do that.

I don't blame anyone for putting in decades of hard work and feeling like it's no longer their responsibility to get others organized and get their voices heard, when the majority has made perfectly clear that they don't give one hot damn about all that hard work. Why should that job be left to some of the most vulnerable amongst us culturally, anyway?

It might not be a bad strategy. Trump is famously undisciplined and his lackeys are treacherous. The best chance for survival might very well be to sit back and let them fuck up. Last time around he didnt manage to build the wall or repeal the ACA, not because activists stopped him, but because his own allies couldn't stop tripping over their own feet. Without someone like McConnell to hand him finished packages to rubber stamp, he could go four more years spinning in circles without implementing much of anything.

And peaceful protest is a nonstarter. Hes itching to have people killed, and giving him four years to sift through the general staff to find officers willing to do it will make things much worse in 2028.

Unfortunately what we need is one in every single district, so about a million(?) or so?