I assume they're planting stakes and stocking hay

“There comes a time when silence is betrayal.” ~Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

The US government is working in direct opposition to the majority will of its citizens, whom it imbues with the power to change this.

We can keep trying to make swimming pools out of the swamp of gossip and salacious detail about the like of Boebert or Greene or we can stand up and refuse to let this continue.

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SW-User

It seems like the only democratic way to achieve anything is to first amend the US constitution so that the conservative, regressive minority no longer has a disproportionate voice via the institution of the senate (as well as the electoral college), yet it seems like an impossibility to get red states to ratify US constitutional amendments that end minority rule.

The only alternative then seems like non-democratic measures like civil war/revolution, and here the conservatives seem better armed and more interested in / dedicated to actually preparing for such a scenario, while the left has no interest, for the most part, in arming itself, and training/drilling for such scenarios.

I mean the left and center can turn out in droves during federal elections and make sure the White House never has a Republican, but the executive branch isn't really the core problem, and the right wing has more power via the the US senate, even when a state like Wyoming has fewer inhabitants than the District of Columbia. It doesn't even mean much for Democrats to have a senate majority when a couple of them are actually conservatives in conservative red states that would never elect a progressive senator regardless of their partisan affiliation.

What options am I overlooking for the left and even the mythical center to prevent the inevitable decline of the US into a fascist and/or theocratic state that can never be recovered?

Graylight · 51-55, F

@SW-User Well said. This is much more than picking a top candidate or ideology that differs but has a common goal; this is about a group of entitled, emboldened and rage-filled people who've not only decided they can jump to the front of the line but that they own the ride now.

Historically, that has been met with necessary resistance and quelling of the rabble-rousers. Historically, this rarely ends well.

Bang5luts · M

Well put!

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