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Project 2025 is terrifying. But when the history books talk about this period, they will point to July 1, 2024, as the beginning of the Fascist Era in the United States.
That's the day SCOTUS ruled on the perfectly-named Trump v. United States, in which the Court said the president could not be prosecuted for crimes committed in office.
In the 11 days since, Biden and the Democrats have taken absolutely no action. That's because they are not an antifascist party. They will capitulate and capitulate until fascism is complete.
The media are playing this down as something that only applies to Trump. As something not especially dangerous. As something normal.
Protest, strikes, even "rioting" (a slur for direct action) are not failures of democracy, they are integral to it. The system has failed and will not replace itself. The People still have the power to make real, substantive change and create a society that is not just not-fascist but actively antifascist. And anticolonialist, antiracist, antisexist, genuinely democratic, and free.
Voting for Democrats AT BEST delays the inevitable furthering of fascism for a short while, and AT WORST actually accelerates fascism by empowering capitulators. Want to vote Biden? Fine, waste an hour of your time.
If you want to actually fight fascism, YOU HAVE TO FIGHT.
I don't know if I said this already, but I'm saying it again.
I'll never understand why Liberals recognize that poverty, crime, and racism are systemic issues, not don't get that people not voting is a systemic issue, not a matter of personal responsibility.
When there are only two parties, neither of which represents the interests of half the population, half the population just is not going to vote. End of story.
Liberals act like ending the two-party duopoly is impossible, but it's not. Most Americans are sick of it, but they were taught by their government-mandated high school Civics class that duopoly is good and you can't change the system. And they believed it!
Imagine if your favorite Liberal party disappointed you (say by failing to protect abortion rights, or letting the Supreme Court turn Fascist, or losing multiple times to a corrupt convicted felon), so you could vote for one of the other two or three Liberal parties! Imagine how nice that would be!
Stop acting like fundamental change is bad and impossible. It's neither. Our problems REQUIRE fundamental change. And you're never going to get it from the Democrats.