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I'm not from America, so I don't really get why you're not all forming militias into battalions and organizating command structures and overt/covert lines of communication and national plans.
A counter coup if you will. Aka trying to find a majority based path to a bloodless civil war. Ideally a series of stand offs where fed forces have been prearranged to stand down.
Of course if that fails Trump would declare marshall law which is part of his agenda as it legitimizes the executive having more power so....
Death by 1000 grifters I guess is the alternative.
Not sure where you're from, but we have some problems that stand in the way of coordinating any kind of resistance. At least, not proactively.
In short: we have no living memory of domestic war, famine, epidemic, or wholesale financial hardship lasting longer than a few years. We've had tastes of those things, but they always effect people disproportionately, usually along class lines. So being proactive by taking up arms, or preparing for economic catastrophe, is literally unthinkable for most.
Meanwhile, the usual kind of political corruption that we're accustomed to just came to an end, and is changing shape before our very eyes. Nobody knows what to do with that, yet.
American cops are extremely right-wing, love shooting people, and are never punished for it. If you go to a demonstration, even one that's supposed to be peaceful, you're risking getting killed.
Any attempt to organize into militias or battalions would be seen as an uprising, and the FBI would investigate. The FBI has always been a fairly right-wing organization, and they're now under the thumb of Trump, who regularly talks about using violence against protesters. Joining a militia or a battalion would be a good way to get killed.
The US is a really big place, and most of this is happening in Washington DC, which is pretty remote from most of the country. Washington DC is a strange place with a large, fairly poor urban black population, and a relatively wealthy white suburbs. The white suburbs make roughly 3x as much as the black population. So, while black people might be interested in protesting, they know they'd be much more likely to be hurt or killed by the police. In addition, while many care about these issues, a lot of them don't have the time or energy to get involved because they're focused on just getting by. For the white population in the suburbs, a lot of them have jobs connected to the government, so they may be more restricted in what they can really do than someone who just has some random office or factory job. In addition, people who work for the government are more likely to try to work through channels rather than protest in the streets.
Most of us are in denial. You probably would be too if it was your way of living and life on the line. Most people aren't mentally prepared for shit to get that kind of real..
I think we're waiting to see if they fire like half of the FBI to work with them...