• NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
    23·
    5 days ago

    Ah, yes, because liberal firebrands Gavin Newsom and Chuck Schumer are definitely going to finish Reconstruction rather than immediately appease the fascists.

    • bthest@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      4 days ago

      “Slavery should be abolished in the Ottoman Empire.”

      -President Newsom, Gettysburg, July 1863.

    • Uriel238 [all pronouns]English
      4·
      5 days ago

      We have to kick their respective asses if they don’t take rapid, decisive action within days of the new term. We don’t have the room to wait and let them move slowly. Already, the Democratic Party is being petitioned to be bold and move quickly once they return to power. If they return to power.

      And yeah, if they fail to do so, then they are complicit in the destruction of the institutions of the United States.

      Frankly, I am not an organizer and I’ve not been able to make sense of how non-violent revolution works. And so, I don’t know whether or not it means the people have to open with violence. However, they can open with noncooperation and civil disobedience, and if the establishment Democrats respond with paramilitary force, that will open hostilities and show that the Democratic party is collaborating with the fascist enemy against the public.

    • 4am@lemmy.zip
      1·
      5 days ago

      I feel like the Aidy-Bryant-SNL-characters of the United States are waking up to the fact that this is more than just a “who does business better” situation anymore.

      If there was a second civil war and a reconstruction, it would not be lead by Gavin fucking Newsome

  • Abyssian@lemmy.world
    2·
    4 days ago

    You’d expect the federal government to fight them? More like surrender on the condition certain politicians get to run the new Confererate States.