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Organize a more robust civil society outside of religious institutions or institutions captured by oligarchs. This is the weak spot of the USA, and as long as it goes neglected, political change will always eventually skew back towards authoritarianism.
So, you might ask, how am I supposed to do that? Well it really really depends on who and where you are. Do you have money? Do you have time? Are you educated in a certain way? What is your skillset? Answer those questions and old farts like me can give you the benefit of experience.
Basically, be less of a hero individualist expecting measurable change with your name attached, and more in service of the community where you say we did that, and make pressure for change from there. You will have a lot of choices about how to personally make a difference from there.
tl;dr: you are asking the wrong people, and expecting the wrong results
The people and businesses who fund the political candidates, capitulate, or otherwise support facism. Stop buying from Walmart, target, home Depot, Amazon, Tesla, u-line, etc. buy things second hand and pay with cash. Stop using traditional social media (already here) It doesn’t have to be perfect, but do your best to be mindful of who you’re buying from.
Also Americans: “I can’t stop buying from Amazon, other people still are! The mildest of inconveniences is too much effort on my part to resist fascism! Can’t you do it for me?”
Oh for fucks sake, I’m not talking individuals here. You are making a strawman argument.
You need to seek out others who also want to do something, and there is plenty of opportunity for that with todays social media.
Then you plan together what would be a good thing to do locally for your area.
If others are doing something too, and their approach is more successful, you join them.
You collect a group, and do maybe 1 hour protests once a week to begin with, get peoples attention, and try to get more to join.
AFAIK that’s just about how grassroots movements get started.
Also you’ve had almost a year to figure something out now, how lame is it of you to ask this question now?
They just want to whine about the US, they have no actual suggestions with merit and keep trying to dismiss any and all evidence that people are actually doing things.
If they were talking about Ukraine, I’d assume they’re a Russian bot.
Build a more secular, caring, educated, egalitarian society? Row together with others to move the whole boat.
Not a specious statement. People saying ‘what am I supposed to do?’ often seem to think they can put republicans out of office and the problem is solved. USA is culturally divided and class stratified, and the non-commercial sectors are under repression.
There is only so much one person can do, and I absolutely do not blame those Americans that actually voted against Trump, and those who are actively protesting.
It’s the remaining 90+% that are the problem.
At least the majority seems to be voting Democrat now, but it’s far from a sure thing there will be another presidential election.
Maybe they are referring to the political science truism that only 10% or so of society needs to be mobilized and activated for sociopolitical change to engage.
Please give examples of what one person could do, that actually makes a change.
Organize a more robust civil society outside of religious institutions or institutions captured by oligarchs. This is the weak spot of the USA, and as long as it goes neglected, political change will always eventually skew back towards authoritarianism.
So, you might ask, how am I supposed to do that? Well it really really depends on who and where you are. Do you have money? Do you have time? Are you educated in a certain way? What is your skillset? Answer those questions and old farts like me can give you the benefit of experience.
Basically, be less of a hero individualist expecting measurable change with your name attached, and more in service of the community where you say we did that, and make pressure for change from there. You will have a lot of choices about how to personally make a difference from there.
tl;dr: you are asking the wrong people, and expecting the wrong results
Boycotts
Boycott what exactly?
The people and businesses who fund the political candidates, capitulate, or otherwise support facism. Stop buying from Walmart, target, home Depot, Amazon, Tesla, u-line, etc. buy things second hand and pay with cash. Stop using traditional social media (already here) It doesn’t have to be perfect, but do your best to be mindful of who you’re buying from.
Oh good, we’ll boycott food production, banking, technology, firearms and transportation.
Cool.
I’ll just sit here then. Let me know when the revolution is over.
https://lemmy.world/comment/21219099
Yes? Your point is?
I’m not sure what their point is
That only works if everone does it.
Source: I’ve been too broke to buy shit for 2 or 3 years and the country is still in the toilet.
It helps if you tell other people about why they should boycott. It doesn’t have to be perfect, but if you can avoid certain companies it does help.
Americans: haha “France surrenders”
Also Americans: “I can’t stop buying from Amazon, other people still are! The mildest of inconveniences is too much effort on my part to resist fascism! Can’t you do it for me?”
Oh for fucks sake, I’m not talking individuals here. You are making a strawman argument.
You need to seek out others who also want to do something, and there is plenty of opportunity for that with todays social media. Then you plan together what would be a good thing to do locally for your area.
If others are doing something too, and their approach is more successful, you join them.
You collect a group, and do maybe 1 hour protests once a week to begin with, get peoples attention, and try to get more to join.
AFAIK that’s just about how grassroots movements get started.
Also you’ve had almost a year to figure something out now, how lame is it of you to ask this question now?
Its not in the news, but we’re already doing what you mentioned. What else do we do?
They just want to whine about the US, they have no actual suggestions with merit and keep trying to dismiss any and all evidence that people are actually doing things.
If they were talking about Ukraine, I’d assume they’re a Russian bot.
Build a more secular, caring, educated, egalitarian society? Row together with others to move the whole boat.
Not a specious statement. People saying ‘what am I supposed to do?’ often seem to think they can put republicans out of office and the problem is solved. USA is culturally divided and class stratified, and the non-commercial sectors are under repression.
There is only so much one person can do, and I absolutely do not blame those Americans that actually voted against Trump, and those who are actively protesting.
It’s the remaining 90+% that are the problem.
At least the majority seems to be voting Democrat now, but it’s far from a sure thing there will be another presidential election.
PS:
I have no idea why you got a downvote?
I disagree that 90% of americans aren’t doing anything. I see protests literally every day, so I don’t know what you’re on about.
Then you don’t know what 10% looks like.
Where are you getting your numbers?
43% of statistics are made up on the spot.
Highest estimate for no kings was 5 million, which is 1.6%. So accounting for infants and the sick I find that to be a reasonable estimate.
Maybe they are referring to the political science truism that only 10% or so of society needs to be mobilized and activated for sociopolitical change to engage.
Double post due to lemmy bug.