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In reply to the discussion: Why Isn't Anyone Doing Anything? [View all]WestMichRad
(2,860 posts)1. Form an independent, civilian-powered investigative coalition.
Im talking experts. Veterans. Whistleblowers. Journalists. Watchdog orgs.
Deputize the resistance. Build a real-time archive of corruption, overreach, and executive abuse.
Make it public. Make it unshakable.
Let the people drag the rot into the light.
If you cant hold formal hearings, hold public ones.
If Congress wont act, let the country act.
This isnt about optics its about receipts.
Because at some point, these people will be held accountable. And when that day comes, well need every name, every signature, every illegal order, every act of silence documented. Youre not just preserving truth youre preparing evidence for prosecution. The more they vanish people and weaponize data, the more we need truth in the sunlight.
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2. Join the International Criminal Court.
Yes, I said it. Call their bluff. You cannot control what the other side does. But you can control your own integrity. So prove it. Prove that your party is still grounded in law, human rights, and ethical leadership.
Join.
If youve got nothing to hide join.
Show the world whos hiding bodies, bribes, and buried bank accounts. Force the GOP to explain why theyd rather protect a war criminal than sign a treaty. And while youre at it, publicly invite ICC observers into U.S. borders. Make this administration explain on camera why theyre terrified of international oversight.
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3. Fund state-level resistance infrastructure.
Dont just send postcards. Send resources.
Channel DNC funds into rapid-response teams, legal defense coalitions, sanctuary networks, and digital security training.
If the federal government is hijacked, build power underneath it.
If the laws become tools of oppression, help people resist them legally, locally, and boldly.
This is not campaign season this is an authoritarian purge. Stop campaigning. Act like this is the end of democracy, because it is. We WILL REMEMBER the warriors come primaries. Fighting this regime should be your marketing strategy.
And lets be clear:
The reason the other side always seems three steps ahead is because they ARE.
They prepared for this. They infiltrated school boards, courts, local legislatures, and police unions. They built a machine while you wrote press releases. Were reacting theyve been executing a plan for years.
Its time to shift from panic to blueprint.
You should already be working with strategists and military minds on PROJECT 2029 a coordinated, long-term plan to rebuild this country when the smoke clears.
You should be publicly laying out:
The laws and amendments youll pass to ensure this never happens again
The systems youll tear down and the safeguards youll enshrine
The plan to hold perpetrators of human atrocities accountable
The urgent commitment to immediately bring home those sold into slavery in El Salvador
You say youre the party of the people? Then show the people the plan.
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4. Use your platform to educate the public on rights and resistance tactics.
If theyre going to strip us of rights and lie about it arm the people with truth. Text campaigns. Mass trainings. Downloadable Know Your Rights kits. Multilingual legal guides. Encrypted phone trees.
Give people tools, not soundbites.
We dont need more slogans.
We need survival manuals.
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5. Leverage international media and watchdogs.
Stop hoping U.S. cable news will wake up. Theyre too busy playing both sides of fascism. Feed the real stories to BBC, Al Jazeera, The Guardian, Reuters, Der Spiegel hell, leak them to anonymous dropboxes if you have to. Make whats happening in America a global scandal. And stop relying on platforms that are actively suppressing truth.
Start leveraging Substack. Use Bluesky. Thats where the resistance is migrating. Thats where censorship hasnt caught up. If the mainstream wont carry the truth outflank them. Get creative. Go underground. Go global.
If our democracy is being dismantled in broad daylight, make sure the whole world sees it and make sure were still able to say it.
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6. Create a digital safe haven for whistleblowers and defectors.
Not everyone inside this regime is loyal. Some are scared. Some want out. Build the channels. Encrypted. Anonymous. Protected. Make it easy for the cracks in the system to become gaping holes.
And while youre at it? Stop ostracizing MAGA defectors. Everyone makes mistakes even glaring, critical ones. We are not the bullies. We are not the ones filled with hate.
And it is not your job to shame people who finally saw the fire and chose to step out of it.
They will have to deal with that internal struggle the guilt of putting a very dangerous and callous regime in power. But theyre already outnumbered. Dont push them back into the crowd.
We dont need purity. We need numbers. We need people willing to burn their red hats and testify against the machine they helped build.
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7. Study the collapseand the comeback.
You should be learning from South Korea and how they managed their brief rule under dictatorship. They didnt waste time chasing the one man with absolute immunity. They went after the structure.
The aides. The enforcers. The loyalists. The architects.
They knocked out the foundation one pillar at a time until the strongman had no one left to stand on. And his power crumbled beneath him.
You should be independently investigating every author of Project 2025, every aide who defies court orders, every communications director repeating lies, every policy writer enabling cruelty, every water boy who keeps this engine running.
You cant stop a regime by asking the king to sit down. You dismantle the throne hes standing on one coward at a time.
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Stop being scared to fight dirty when the other side is fighting to erase the damn Constitution.
They are threatening to disappear AMERICANS.
A M E R I C A N S.
And your biggest move cant be another strongly worded email.
We dont want your urgently fundraising subject lines. We want backbone. We want action. We want to know youll stand up before were all ordered to sit down permanently.
We are watching. And I dont just mean your base. I mean millions of us who see exactly whats happening.
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(He wrote more urgings to accompany this list that I have omitted.)
You can critique his list (and I think his item on joining the ICC is off base, because only governments can do that), but critiquing his list misses the point: We need to take action, NOW!!