It is beyond naive to think that the general population has any ability whatsoever to do anything about the blatant illegality exhibited every day by the Trump administration. Hell, even those in Congress opposed to Trump have no ability to do a single thing to stop him. Protests? What will that accomplish (other than possibly endangering yourself and your own liberties)? Calling your representative to tell them how you feel? They already know, and they have no ability or no desire to do anything about it. U.S. Senator Cory Booker gave a much-lauded 25+ hour speech and guess what it accomplished? Nothing at all. Another U.S. Senator traveled to El Salvador to meet with one of the prisoners being illegal held there, and guess what changed? Nothing.
Elections matter, and our misguided populace elected Trump and his ilk. There's nothing that can be done about it until -- or more likely, unless there is -- a future election. How is it not registering that the Trumpublicans control all branches of government, and they are pleased to do whatever they want to tear down laws, rights, freedoms, government order, fairness, history, science, medicine, traditions, and decency?
The Trump administration and his enablers in Congress and the courts could not give a Single F*ck about what you or I think. On the contrary, many take glee in causing grief for those who are bothered by this administration's actions. Banging on a drum and chanting with protest signs and calling or emailing representatives is as useful as pissing in the wind. And violence clearly is no answer and would be just as futile.
So, you are saying there is absolutely nothing to be done, to be clear?
Unfortunately, for us regular folks, yes. We can do our best to take care of ourselves, our families, our neighbors and friends. I think economic boycotts have some ability to possibly move the needle a bit, as we've seen with Tesla and Musk. And if we have a chance in a future election to replace Trump and those like him, we can vote against them. But the deck is seriously stacked in favor of the Trumpublican party and only getting worse, so elections in the future may be entirely performative as in Russia. And again -- people all over the world are gravitating to this lawless, populist stance, so even if the deck wasn't stacked, I'm not sure it would be a favorable outcome.
I don't agree. Silence implies consent. We need to be loud, as loud as we can be. And as disruptive as possible.
Ah yes, then we almost entirely agree (depending on the definition of "disruptive"), because I definitely don't advocate silence. If I ever saw Trump, I would tell him to his face that I know what he is. I am glad when people speak out against him and his daily, outrageous lawlessness and cruelty. I am just under no illusion that it will make any difference in any kind of legislative outcome or any change in the administration's behavior, or that of his enablers. Case in point: Terrible things are continuing to happen every single day, and nothing on this earth will stop it except a few court decisions which have thrown a few temporary monkey wrenches in the works. I would be very pleased to be proven wrong about this, but I don't think any meaningful evidence can be offered otherwise. What I
am in disagreement with (I'm not saying you are doing this) is making people feel bad for "not doing anything," because people can very rightly believe there is nothing meaningful that can be done.
