• acargitz@lemmy.caOP
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      Look back in the history of the US. Specifically how the abolitionists in the Northern States resisted the Slave Republic that your founding daddies built up until your civil war. They gradually installed state governments that started putting in place state laws that resisted in practice the federal mandates to protect slavery. Things like the personal liberty laws. That’s your next move here: use municipalities and state governments and legislatures to pass laws that resist the enshittification of your democracy and get your local police to enforce them. Take power and use it. That’s what the article is trying to say too.

      You got to go beyond protesting. Protesting is asking state power to do something. You got to take power wherever you can and resist, i.e., attach a cost to every authoritarian move. But to do that you need to let go the founding daddy issues and embrace the spirit of John Brown, Frederick Douglass, King, and X, i.e., stop revering the framework built by a bunch of white supremacist slavers and get to framing your own free multiracial democratic Republic.

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        Alas, in the United States, that won’t be the rulers that will be the people. The US will never rise up.