As an American that strongly advocates for direct action, this depresses me (further). If taking to the streets still doesn’t get anything done, what hope is there?
Have hope, but be smarter about it, we need to strategize, out in the open (because keeping a secret from the state in 2024 is all but impossible), with the clear realization of what our oppressors are willing and able to do to stop us. People online seem to think that real change can only come from enough of us getting pissed simultaneously and taking to the streets, but what does sending a very strong signal to someone that doesn’t care really get us? …or violent full-on revolution but that strategy is impossible to grow and is likely to backfire big time. We need to consciously evolve our culture to not need a state.
–> The state cannot exist, any state is a target for the power hungry to take over and start the cycle over again.
That government that stops or slows our progress, it’s made out of people. I’m a bit older, I saw the “Tea Party” in the U.S. go from a few excited people giving a speech at Sizzler to causing problems for the whole world. Why can’t people that want to make things better do that?
We need to get more good people into office at any level possible, to demilitarize the police, prevent book bans, help prevent ordinances against protesting, guerilla gardening, etc.
We need more people to run to vote even if they can’t win to influence the Overton Window and call out the right wingers
We need people to form and join worker’s co-ops. Why isn’t there a local co-op pizza shop, bike shop?
We need people building community that is separate from capitalist interests. What does this look like?
Learn to garden, plan harvests and food sharing with neighbors to save money and be less dependent on the fragile system.
Garage bars, dinner parties, tiki parties, BBQs, block parties. Anything that gets neighbors talking and having fun and building shared interests.
Walking and riding around your neighborhood making friends, knowing faces