Title pretty much says it.
Can I at least fantasize about Democrats frantically creating procedural bulwarks and safeguards between now and inauguration day that will have some effect and not be immediately swept away by the incoming administration?
To what degree can they have any impact on the next four years, and do we think they are pulling all the levers they can?
Having been alive and watching our government become a dysfunctional fucking mess over the course of over forty fucking years…
No.
Get involved with Mutual Aid Networks. We will not be able to rely on the systems we’ve traditionally been able to rely on. We must build our own systems outside of the capitalist landscape and outside government authority. We can neither trust the capitalists nor the government they have twisted to their own ends (easily done because the constitution is some old ass bullshit, and nobody ever does anything about the loopholes. it’s like a computer program that’s never been updated but is still online with all sorts of security issues).
Our Constitution has always been badly written and easily used to push authoritarianism, and Trump is ready to wipe his ass with what’s left of the US Constitution and the Republicans are ready to let him.
I want to respond to this by saying that it is 100% correct.
Get to know your neighbors. Figure out who can do what. Is anyone undocumented? Is anyone good at fixing things? Who has kids and who is good at watching kids?
The plus side is that if we do this right, we should be able to toss out the Christian Nationalists in a few years. But we’ll have a much better shot at that if we learn how to take care of one another the way we should’ve a long time ago.
Every time we say it’s “not our job” to learn how to do something, what we’re effectively saying is “it’s not our job to make the world a better place.” Actually, that’s everyone’s job, all the time.
Upgrade your gray matter because one day it may matter.