Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez lays out battle plan against 'shockingly dim' Trump White House

Any kind of on the ground movement or mobilization needs political support in the halls of power. It's what made the resistance demonstrated against Trump the first term possible, and the dynamic goes both ways. On the ground resistance gives political actors the space to be resilient. Resilient politicians give in the ground movement space to work.

Basically all other Democrats other than Bernie and AOC shrivelling up and hiding in their shells will have a chilling effect on our ability to organize on the ground.

It isn't chump and his taintsuckers you gotta worry about.

It's the army of Federalist Society lawyers and policy experts around him. They've spent decades figuring out the removed in the armor of our governmental system. Figuring out how to dismantle it piece by piece.

Edit - wtf is that removed about? Wait....oh. bot thinks I did a racism.

"Tyranny is eroded by a sea of small acts. Everything matters."

A lot of Lemmy users really need to understand this. Far too often I see people deride any action that doesn't immediately fix all problems in the world as worthless or meaningless, simply because they lack the imagination needed to see how small actions can add up to big changes.

If all Dems had her tenacity and honest interest in helping the middle class, we wouldn't be where we are.

Turns out when all you want are loyalists, all you get are dumb assess.

She encouraged activists to take offline action

Based

Look at the "secret service detail" he picked.

He picked loyalty over skill, actually DEI

Just a few inches to the right

Few More Inches

She is possibly our best hope.

Basically, resist. Do not comply in advance. Make them fire you. Challenge that firing in court.

Good luck to her.

finally, a person with a STRATEGY. so sick of the whining.

she needs volunteers for personal escort and safety. i think she is going to be targeted.

I just hope she comes out of this unscathed. It only takes one loon with a shiv... and now there's millions of 'em.

That would be a great plan if the Dems were not spineless at best and complicit at worse

I would love to start something in my city, and I've already been trying, but it's hard to get people to mobilize. It's disheartening at the very least. Any ideas on how I can be helpful to my country aside from voting?

"It’s important to know that a lot of productive activity is happening in person and offline, too," she said. "Not all of it can be broadcast online, but we’ve had hundreds of people showing up to our trainings, mobilizations, and more. Keep going. Tyranny is eroded by a sea of small acts. Everything matters."

He is definitely confused, weak and incompetent, backed by confused, weak and incompetent Republicans.

Bit late. I appreciate her efforts to resist, and we all need to do that, but it honestly is too late now. The time to resist this was last year. Now we’re in disaster recovery, which requires a whole different kind of resistance, and it feels like even people like her don’t quite understand where we are now.

Because of all the people who haven’t fucking listened to the warnings, we’ve entered actual fascism, and regular resistance won’t work anymore. Thinking it will only makes more of us believe small actions or Strong Words will save us. This isn’t 1930 Germany like we were warning last year, it’s 1939 Germany now, and der führer is beginning to build the camps.

Are you going to keep ignoring us when you’re ruffling the ashes of your compatriots from your hair? I honestly believe you will.

Simple Sabotage Manual

If only AOC didn't whip up a battle plan to prevent the union strike when she voted to protect the rail corporation.

The problem is decades ago Democrats did not make changes to help the poor and lower middle classes fast enough and extreme enough to show that they were the party of the common worker and get a dominant position for multiple election cycles, allowing them to put in policies to stop inflation.

Do you want Jesus/religion and extreme poverty for the lower classes?

or Do you want abortion and mild poverty for the lower classes?

Moral wedge issues resulted in a lot of lost votes because for decades Democrats offered only minimal or marginal economic benefits for the lower classes. Their platform was so conservative they lost power completely over moral wedge issues and now can't get it back. Also, now the US is in so much debt that something like DOGE (which is covert austerity measures camouflaged as conservatism) is actually prudent and necessary.

The Senate: "We can't hear you over conforming Trump's Secretary of State nomination unanimously!“

Said Secretary, Marco Rubio: immediately bans accurate passports for trans, nongender, and intersex people 🤦🤬