“A decade ago, I wrote a response to an inquiry about what makes America great. It was written before Trump came into office for the first term and we had a structured government system.
Fast forward to today and one needs some deep soul searching to find how great the US is, because as you can see from this post by Courtney Summers, there’s not much about America to be proud of. We’re just simply a country where we have to toil ourselves to oblivion in order to succeed.
And even then we fall well short….
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Let’s be honest: we are overworked, over exploited, and completely burned out. We’ve built a country that worships being overworked like a religion. We glorify burnout. We celebrate exhaustion.”
With the government funding running out by the end of January, Congress is waking up to the reality that Trump is becoming unstable and turning the US into a dictatorship.
A lot of that has to do with Trump’s new army, ICE, which many have considered the American version of the Gestapo. Already a drive to increase funding to enlarge ICE is being proposed, as well as a law that would allow ICE to go after funding and “terrorists” overseas.
In order to stop this, many measures would need to be made- immediately and all simultaneously in order to get Trump overwhelmed and confused and also to stop the US from becoming a ful-fledged authoritarian regime, where we don’t even have a chance to vote anymore.
Renee Nicole Good’s murder by an ICE agent in Minneapolis has left millions of Americans wondering how we can stop ICE from terrorizing our communities any further.
There are many well-known ICE-fighting tactics that we can and should use, like protests, know-your-rights trainings, and neighborhood watches. But two recent victories show a promising, relatively underutilized path forward—one that deserves to be pursued further: we can target businesses to break from ICE.
ICE relies heavily on the private sector to help carry out its Gestapo-like crusade against immigrants and their allies.
Without the logistical, financial, and political support of business, its capacity to terrorize our communities would crumble.
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~~Trump’s Pillars of Support~~
Anti-authoritarian scholars and organizers stress that the most important thing for pro-democracy movements to do is to peel away a regime’s “pillars of support.”
Even the most despotic of regimes can’t rule without the backing or consent of powerful external institutions. Corporate Targets
The most strategic corporate targets fall into three categories: low-lift national targets, high-lift national targets, and local targets.
“What they want you to hear is that Jonathan Ross is a highly trained, experienced law enforcement officer who shot and killed a professional radical agitator who attempted to murder him with her car.
His behavior, they claim, was justified because he was in fear for his life.”
The law does not consider the fear of a woman surrounded by several masked armed men yelling at her and attempting to drag her and her wife from their vehicle.
The law does not value the fear experienced by Renee Nicole Good.
It Is What It Is 