The majority of the US citizenry have been convinced that strikes and unions are tools of communism, despite the USA’s long history of successful strikes and industrial action, all due to ~70 years of red scare propaganda. Voting is a ‘waste of time’ or ‘rigged by the EC’ so a full third don’t bother.
So those tools don’t exist to them, and now they’ve tried nothing and are all out of ideas.
I think guns are possibly a deterrent at protests (as you allude), but with the heavily-armed govt as the adversary and the legal system largely on their side and their trigger-happy history… I think it’ll turn into a massacre. Trump will likely use it to seize additional emergency powers, and go full steam ahead with any fascist dreams he has for the next three years.
Who knows, maybe wide violence is inevitable now to get out of the frog-in-pot incremental fascism the US public have been in for a long time now (at least 10 years).
I wish them every success in overcoming Trump and his MAGA admin, and I hope they remember how poorly appeasement has worked out for them after winning the last civil war.
The majority of the US citizenry have been convinced that strikes and unions are tools of communism, despite the USA’s long history of successful strikes and industrial action, all due to ~70 years of red scare propaganda. Voting is a ‘waste of time’ or ‘rigged by the EC’ so a full third don’t bother.
So those tools don’t exist to them, and now they’ve tried nothing and are all out of ideas.
I think guns are possibly a deterrent at protests (as you allude), but with the heavily-armed govt as the adversary and the legal system largely on their side and their trigger-happy history… I think it’ll turn into a massacre. Trump will likely use it to seize additional emergency powers, and go full steam ahead with any fascist dreams he has for the next three years.
Who knows, maybe wide violence is inevitable now to get out of the frog-in-pot incremental fascism the US public have been in for a long time now (at least 10 years).
I wish them every success in overcoming Trump and his MAGA admin, and I hope they remember how poorly appeasement has worked out for them after winning the last civil war.