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As I mentioned in my comment above: A general strike that continues until the government resigns seems to me to be the only peaceful solution. I cannot judge whether this is realistic, as I am not a U.S. citizen.
Viewed from the outside, however, it seems to me that this is only remotely realistic if the living conditions of ordinary Americans deteriorate to the point where they rise up. I have no doubt that the living conditions of American citizens will continue to deteriorate. But whether and when this will lead to sustained mass protests or even a sustained general strike, I cannot say.
Most people can't afford a general strike either. We ourselves are having our liberties surpressed. The only ones able to lash out against the oligarchy are those who have already lost everything to the machine, and even then some of them end up too broken to be able to do something meaningful. Luigi is a rare case where action actually resulted in change and it spoke to the majority of the country who is tired of being abused like indentured servants.
In this case, I am convinced that the U.S. will become a full-blown autocracy like today’s Russia sooner rather than later.
The regime has already laid the groundwork for this, and if it decides to do away with even the pretense of democracy - which I consider more likely with each passing day - resistance will effectively mean that those who have the courage to resist will vanish without a trace.
That’s how it was in my home country back when the Nazis took over Germany. Here, too, people were convinced that things would somehow work out on their own- what actually happened is written in the history books.
The saving grace is the same as the Nazis. They are not working together twords a common goal but using eachother to get to individual goals. The dark enlightenment crowd wants full on collapse. No more Russia or USA they want technofeudalistic city states. Trump wants money and his name on stuff before he dies. Miller wants to be Goebbels. Don Jr wants to fix bets and do lines. JD wants to be president. A bunch of these idiots want the literal rapture.
I agree with most of this, though I do think the U.S. will still become a full-blown autocracy soon, since there’s hardly any resistance.
For the techno-fascists, the need to transform larger cooperatives - such as the EU - into smaller, less influential entities exists only where they expect resistance; that is precisely what they do to weaken resistance by splitting more powerful large units into smaller, less influential parts.
This does not seem necessary for the US, since the country has effectively been a de facto oligarchy for decades. However, I now think that the oligarchs have realized they no longer need to pretend that the US is a democracy. After all, it is much easier for the actual rulers if they can simply make their opponents disappear, as their counterparts in Russia do.
I think you'll be suprised how fast it all unravels once we start to hit tipping points. Natural disaster for instance is not a part of any of this dickheads plans. Nor are they planning for the famine this war will cause indirectly. This whole plot was thought up by the spoiled grandchildren of real spooks. A single hurricane hitting oil refineries in the gulf or a bond sell off would be catastrophic for these plans made in a vacuum
Thanks, Reagan.
I'm an astronomer, a strike at my workplace would have little impact on the countries economy.
Yeah, to some extent that's what is going to happen. For a some of us the question isn't "if" but how long will we have to endure.
Change would seem to entail violence no matter how it was went about. We can't strike without losing our jobs, therefore our homes and healthcare, people don't have the financial means to strike indefinitely so they would have to occupy buildings and break other laws to keep it going, the police would be directed to break up occupations and assemblies with force resulting in death and injuries.
We have had mass protests and public occupations from time to time for decades now that have been met with police repression, murders and abductions from the government and reactionaries, and they resulted in little progress as far as reduction of the fascist violence from our government and military. The history of this resistance might have brought the public's awareness and discontent to a point where a more radical change in the system could be possible though.