Disaster plans save lives.
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Disaster plans save lives.
If you live in an area prone to tornadoes or hurricanes or fires, you probably have a plan of where to go and materials ready in case of emergency.
It's passed time everyone in the US had a preparedness plan for fascism for those same reasons.
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Disaster plans save lives.
If you live in an area prone to tornadoes or hurricanes or fires, you probably have a plan of where to go and materials ready in case of emergency.
It's passed time everyone in the US had a preparedness plan for fascism for those same reasons.
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A fascism preparedness plan should look something like:
1. Vote blue up and down the ballot, and convince others to do so too. The best-case is preempting fascism from fully taking hold, and that means electing the viable opposition party regardless of how flawed you find them.
2. Recognize that point 1 is very likely insufficient. To my knowledge, there has never been the case of voting out authoritarians once they reach the stage of concentration camps and military in the streets.
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A fascism preparedness plan should look something like:
1. Vote blue up and down the ballot, and convince others to do so too. The best-case is preempting fascism from fully taking hold, and that means electing the viable opposition party regardless of how flawed you find them.
2. Recognize that point 1 is very likely insufficient. To my knowledge, there has never been the case of voting out authoritarians once they reach the stage of concentration camps and military in the streets.
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3. Plan for the worst. Assume that in four years Trump (or successor) is in office and the legislature and courts are impotent. Do you escape? Resist? Revolt? What do you need to make that effective? Now is the time to get them in place. Before it's too late.
We may be passed the point of no return. Judges and opposition leaders are being arrested for resisting unconstitutional policies. The media and courts are bought by billionaires. The military is patrolling the streets of the capitol.
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3. Plan for the worst. Assume that in four years Trump (or successor) is in office and the legislature and courts are impotent. Do you escape? Resist? Revolt? What do you need to make that effective? Now is the time to get them in place. Before it's too late.
We may be passed the point of no return. Judges and opposition leaders are being arrested for resisting unconstitutional policies. The media and courts are bought by billionaires. The military is patrolling the streets of the capitol.
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We are past the point of return. The billionaires who have long sought the goal, have seized control of America’s institutions and are dismantling or repurposing them to suit their needs
The most important thing is to communicate this point and that nobody is coming to save us. Not the court, not the law. We are going to have to do it.
And we have to be having conversations with everyone around us how to act collectively to the situation…
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We are past the point of return. The billionaires who have long sought the goal, have seized control of America’s institutions and are dismantling or repurposing them to suit their needs
The most important thing is to communicate this point and that nobody is coming to save us. Not the court, not the law. We are going to have to do it.
And we have to be having conversations with everyone around us how to act collectively to the situation…
@GhostOnTheHalfShell @FantasticalEconomics "In 1933, German conservatives thought they could control Hitler. Two years later, they were being executed in their own homes. I spent weeks researching this question, desperately looking for counter-examples, for hope, for any time in history where people successfully stopped fascists after they started winning elections.
... Once fascists win power democratically, they have never been removed democratically. Not once. Ever." ~ https://medium.com/@carmitage/i-researched-every-attempt-to-stop-fascism-in-history-the-success-rate-is-0-a665e2e048a2 -
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