I present to you, "From Dictatorship to Democracy"

[ck4829]

Maybe it's time to start treating the five of the SCOTUS, anti-choicers, the Republican Party, the "shall not be infringed" crowd, right-wing media, the Trump family, etc. as a regime of tyranny.

The things in this book could be applied to ANY government, but I've been told the game is over, Republicans have already won, the elections are rigged for Republicans, that nothing will work, why bother, why try, and that we're just a bump on the road to decline and fascism.

I, for one, refuse to believe that.

But we should have a backup plan if voting isn't enough, and the first ones espousing this should be the folks who think it's already over.

From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation:
https://www.aeinstein.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/FDTD.pdf

A book that is banned in repressive regimes like Iran and Russia and its mere presence in someone's belongings is included as evidence that people planned violent uprisings despite the book stressing nonviolent solutions and rejecting violence.

This is from the section on "necessary sources of political power":

(they) require the assistance of the people they rule, without which they cannot secure and maintain the sources of political power. These sources of political power include:

• Authority, the belief among the people that the regime is legitimate, and that they have a moral duty to obey it;

• Human resources, the number and importance of the persons and groups which are obeying, cooperating, or providing assistance to the rulers;

• Skills and knowledge, needed by the regime to perform specific actions and supplied by the cooperating persons and groups;

• Intangible factors, psychological and ideological factors that may induce people to obey and assist the rulers;

These groups rely on these same sources of power, no? They have the same potential weaknesses and they can be affected the same mechanisms of non-cooperation and defiance.

Time to start doing it.

[edhopper]

1. The future is not known

saying we see a GOP victory due to their election stealing tactics, a SCOTUS opposed to Voting Rights and a Senate incapable in passing any election reform (because of two obstructionist Dems) is looking at what we see as likely.
It is NOT saying to do nothing. We could well be wrong (hopefully)
Should only people sure of a Dem victory in November speak here?