Seriously. The global ultra rich are all working from the same basic playbook. It’s just happening here first due to the extreme concentration of wealth.

Much like your stupidity

I never said impossible. I was also involved in a lot of community action during Trump’s first admin.

See how far that got us?

You need enough, and we don’t even have that.

Come live here for a while and then tell me how easy it is.

What did you think I meant by, “we are not a united people”?

You can’t organize peace with people who idealize a fascist society

I can make this simple: would you be the first to step in front of the firing squad when you have no idea if others will join you in rushing it?

We are not a united people here.

I’ve often been surprised at how living in America is perceived by the world. I’ve met a lot of people from all over the world, and while some have actually spent enough time here to understand the good and the bad. The rest who have not seem to believe in the shiny veneer that we export in our movies and television.

We are absolute wage slaves here. We are one missed paycheck from homelessness. But sure, blame the slaves for not overthrowing their owners.

The key context to the USA’s relative passitivity with protesting is that we can easily lose our jobs for one of several reasons (none good) if we go protest AND that almost certainly will mean we will also lose our healthcare insurance.

The average person cannot weather an extra expense of only a few hundred dollars, has no savings, and borrowing money in that position usually leads to a debt trap where you’re continually punished for being in a temporary bad spot.

And that’s before we consider what cops and ICE are like here. They’ll just straight up murder us without consequences.

I get that the world is frustrated with us, but I also get that the world fails to grasp how much more desperate things have to get here in order to overcome the hurdles put in front of us.

Honestly, what were you thinking?