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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by erev to c/nostupidquestions
 

I will preface this by saying I understand that I am more radical, revolutionary, and extreme of a leftist than most. Despite that, I still ask that you actually engage with this as I'm asking in good faith.

When is enough enough? We have elected a fascist into the highest office and handed the keys to him and his friends. Is now not the time to actually get organized, involved, and armed? In my opinion, the time for peaceful, democratic means of avoiding fascism was before the election. But we have failed to do so, and as such there will soon be a tyrant in power. Are we going to wait until troops are rolling down the street to stage any form of resistance, because by then it's far too late. Now I want to be clear that I am not advocating for random acts of violence or an insurrection like January 6th. But is this not a point of radicalization? Is this not where we start organizing within our communities and getting involved in mutual aid and resistance? How much more do we need before people are actually ready to stand, fight, and maybe even die to avoid continuing down the path that we are on? Fascism is not on the horizon, it is here. Are we really to do nothing about it as a society except lay down and accept our fate? Because that doesn't jive with me. That makes absolutely no sense to me.

ETA: To the people responding, I will admit that I was heated and frustrated when writing this post. Having had time to cool off, reflect, and get some differing viewpoints my stance has changed to focus more on what needs to happen first and what's practical. You may have seen that in my responses. That being said, I don't disagree with what I said here, and I'm still frustrated we're at this point at all. I've linked a comment though that elaborates upon what I actually want to see done though, which is a lot more reasonable and is still inline with this post.

https://lemmy.world/comment/13305217

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[–] Nibodhika 15 points 1 month ago (4 children)

First of all, I'm not from the USA so take this with a grain of salt, but are you suggesting the election was rigged or fraudulent? Because if not you're the one trying to impose an authoritative regime. Like it or not he was elected democratically, and this time you can't even use the excuse that your voting system is weird because he also got the majority of votes. So the majority of people in your country think that he's the correct person for the job, or in any case don't oppose him.

So what you're talking about is for a minority to raise arms against the democratically elected government. You are the one who's being anti-democratic. Even if you were to win the revolution you would need to put a tyrant in power because calling a new election would result in the same outcome.

Like it or not the majority of the people in your country are stupid enough to either want that or not caring. That's one of the dangers of democracy, but starting a revolution to remove a democratically elected president in the name of democracy is just as dumb.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, nah.

Don’t tolerate intolerance, same goes with authoritarians, use force to remove them.

[–] Nibodhika 2 points 1 month ago

Sure, but so far he's just the democratically elected president, if after his term is up he doesn't want to leave then absolutely kick him by force. Until then any attack is, by definition, anti-democratic.

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