Following on to my post about my waking up thought this morning.

[Susan Calvin]

Here's what I just found in my inbox. Maybe it projected itself into my sleeping brain.

https://www.levernews.com/why-the-trump-protests-will-fail/?utm_source=newsletter-email&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=newsletter-article

Why The Trump Protests Will Fail

The resistance won’t succeed until it stops being a performance and starts challenging the system that got us here.

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But instead of facing the collapse of the bipartisan, neoliberal consensus they’ve defended for decades, the liberal class reverted to familiar tropes: Trump as a fluke, an aberration, a villain who somehow broke into an otherwise healthy system. The Resistance, they believe, will rise again to stop him. 

This dominant narrative in liberal circles — a symbolic clash between decency and fascism — obscures the deeper crisis beneath his rise. It avoids naming the economic, institutional, and political failures that made his comeback possible. And in doing so, it sidesteps the harder, more urgent task: confronting power itself.

[Basso8vb]

1. Great, more defeatist codswallop.

[Susan Calvin]

2. I did not view it as defeatist.

I viewed it as a reminder that the system has issues, not just Trump, not just MAGA, not just Republicans.

[Keepthesoulalive]

3. How does that old saying go

Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. People are getting involved, they are starting to see the rot in our society. Don’t piss on their involvement, let’s help them out by going to local meetings getting to know your council members or supervisors. No kings is an idea that resonates, lets amplify their activism.

[Susan Calvin]

4. That's the way I viewed the article I linked. nt