Is it time for the people to rise up?

[bob4460]

How much more are we going to take?This is in about 1 percent of the population, and if we wait until it gets to 10 percent will we be healthy enough to do anything then? The authoritarianism took a major upturn today with the controlling of The CDC numbers.But what is it going to take?

[zipplewrath]

1. Long past

It should have happened 2+ years ago.

[JI7]

2. we have to vote in November

and do all we can to make sure the process is fair.

[dchill]

3. Almost.

[bamagal62]

4. I've been asking myself this

Question for years now. Are we too lazy? Not sure.

[betsuni]

5. What exactly do you mean by rise up?

Voting?

[BigmanPigman]

6. Start by calling your reps!!!!!

That is safe. I think people who do the protesting may be afraid of catching Covid. I know I am.

[uponit7771]

10. +1

[cayugafalls]

7. Of course. Rise up and Vote.

We should do everything we can to make sure Trump is voted out of office.

Nothing else will work to rid us of his evil.

[bob4460]

8. That I am not sure of.

Protest, general strike, which may be a very effective tool,and then other escalating civil disobedience tools.

[bob4460]

9. Can we go 4 more months?

I really don't think we will be able to handle the damage between now and November 3rd with the exponentially increasing rates.

[Squinch]

11. It's not 4. It's really 6. And those 2 lame duck months might be the most dangerous.

[RandiFan1290]

12. Welcome Back to DU

[WhiskeyGrinder]

13. Have you...not been watching the news the past few months?

[Hortensis]

14. Rise up to what? Destroy democracy? Shockingly stupid idea,

and just who are pushing it at you? It should be extremely obvious in that Trump, McConnell, Putin, and every other villain worried they won't successfully steal the 2020 elections, WANT Americans to defeat themselves by abandoning their power as citizens of a democracy.

Why do you think Republican leaders have been refusing all sensible attempts to limit arms, while providing police departments with military weaponry, except to encourage violent civil unrest that can be put down with force -- and with the support of frightened citizenry?

Your vote is real power. That should never be mistaken for the "power" to hide at home or run out and be massacred by tanks in the street. The power of the vote is what people around the planet are forced to take to the streets to achieve.

[lastlib]

15. No, that was about three+ years ago.

We should've been hitting the streets when he put his unqualified destroyers in Cabinet positions. We should've been hitting the streets when he started putting children in cages. We should've been hitting the streets when he was putting unqualified idiots into federal judgeships. We should've been hitting the streets when he said neo-Nazis were "very fine people".....

You get the idea....

[brooklynite]

16. Let us know when you've got one organized...

[hamsterjill]

17. It's time.

But we need to organize behind a leader. I think there is a lot being placed on Biden being that leader and I will work hard to get him elected. But if Trump steals another four years somehow, I think many of us will have reached a point of no return. I don’t put anything past the Republicans. I’ve never felt such contempt and anger in my lifetime as I do toward the enablers of all of this.

It’s 110 days until the election. I am trying to hold on and trying to hope.