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Sanders is one of the most popular politicians in the US, and his political analysis and messaging remain as relevant and compelling as ever. But while his Tour to Fight Oligarchy is inspiring and important, the broad left badly needs a political vision that goes beyond Sanders.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 days ago (3 children)

this is basically saying, we are currently at -10, Sanders is at +3 and we need to jump to +10 right away. Not gonna happen unless through civil war.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago

More of a revolution than a civil war.

Despite all the maga bots online. There are very few die hard maga in real life.

And I realize that most of the military is Republican.

However. Trump has been fucking over the Vets pretty hard.

He also has removed a lot of the military's top leaders. People who the military personnel respected.

Surely this is going to start eroding the military personnel's loyalty.

But then I also remember how Republicans have consistently voted against their own interests.

And how many people in Russia are against the Ukraine war because they have friends and family in Ukraine. And their soldiers keep dying.

Yet...they are still following orders to attack.

Things are so uncertain.

But if the American people have to literally battle anyone in our own country it's going to be us vs our military personnel.

And they have weapons and training.

Our only real chance is using our intelligence over force. and our decentralized leadership is a strength. So one specific leader can't be targeted and disrupt the movement.

Basically guerilla warfare. Targeting propaganda, military resources, factories that manufacture weapons, and imports. And a priority is Trumps secret police force. ICE.

Because they are removing people who would stand with us. Taking away our resources.

We need to target their communication systems.

There is a few ways that can be done.

Physical disruption or by overloading their systems with inaccurate information.

Of course many of these targets potentially negatively affect the civilian combatants too.

We have to really plan this well. Be strategic.

We need to start preparing for this possibility though. Now. Right now.

I hope we can do this the legal way and get him arrested.

But if not, then we will have to consider plan B.

Every day we move closer to B. Already we are seeing more effects by vandalism of Tesla's. Vs judge orders.

I personally hold not only the 10 Dems who sold us out. But every single Republican who voted yes on the CR too.as well as voting in unqualified department heads.

The representative dems and Republicans who have not stood up to him.

They also are just as responsible.

The judges who have allowed him to continue his obviously unconstitutional activities.

Every single person in Trump's cabinet.

They will all be held accountable for their actions when this is said and done.

We won't forget. They are traitors.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Republicans were at -3 pre 2016 and they've ratcheting up to -10 pretty quickly. If you have a good charismatic leader that the base falls for you can drag the rest of the party along to the edges of the Overton window pretty quickly.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

If you have a good charismatic leader that the base falls for

...the party's geriatric republican-lite leadership will ratfuck them out of the primaries.