My question is - how are we, the average citizen, going to stand up to the fundamental societal changes that Trump plans to achieve together with his dystopian and dysfunctional cabinet and the rest of his garbage coterie? What exactly can we do? Who do we turn to, to lead us in this fray? I belong to a bunch of democratic organizations,…
My question is - how are we, the average citizen, going to stand up to the fundamental societal changes that Trump plans to achieve together with his dystopian and dysfunctional cabinet and the rest of his garbage coterie? What exactly can we do? Who do we turn to, to lead us in this fray? I belong to a bunch of democratic organizations, but I don’t see what they can do? We will need groups of highly motivated, intelligent lawyers to sue the government constantly in preventing outrageous administrative orders from Trump from being enacted. Democrats in Congress will have to stand fully united to prevent the enactment in Law of the many abhorrent plans that are enshrined in Project 2025 from being enacted. And once they are passed into law, again we will need lawyers to argue constantly and forcefully up to the Supreme Court in order to prevent the easy enactment of those unfair and unjust laws. And of course, given the nature of the court system, including and primarily the Supreme Court, these cases will all fail and we will be left with draconian laws that will need to be altered whenever next a truly democratic government is elected. And when can we hope that to be? The midterms in 2026 are perhaps our only hope. Beyond that I fear we may no longer have fair elections as the system will have been so altered, the minds of American voters so confused and addled by the relentless brain washing of the alt right social media system that it may take decades until at last people wake up to their real miseries and finally revolt against what Trump has always wanted to instigate for his own good and for the good of his oligarchic and kakistory friends. To me the outlook is bleak. I want to fight to reject what is to come, but I feel both helpless and hopeless in this fight. I fear the fact that 50% of the American voters blindly followed a known criminal, a self admitted autocrat, a known nasty, cruel, evil and failed business man, who on top of all of this had failed America just 4 years ago in its most existential threat since WW2, and elected him back into the most powerful position in this country. That fact makes me wonder - how do we oppose what is to come when it seems the majority want exactly what we fear?
The Rubicon's been crossed, Charles. The die is cast, the game rigged. We’re beyond the point of no return, and the time for illusions has passed.
How do we resist Trump's dystopia? Bluntly, we don’t. Tyranny's gates are open, and someone will walk through. It’s not if, but when. We’re watching the unraveling unfold, and it’s ugly.
Maybe it’s time to reframe resistance. Instead of saving a sinking ship, abandon it in defiance. Build something new, untainted, elsewhere. Forget the false hopes in courts or elections that may never come to pass.
Instead, create oases—beacons of reason and democracy. Refuse to play by their rules. We don’t have to wait around to be crushed under the boot of inevitability. Set our own course. Build something better, outside of the corruption and chaos.
Some will fight on, and I’ll cheer them on. But maybe the best way to resist is to build a new way forward and show that there’s another option worth believing in.
My question is - how are we, the average citizen, going to stand up to the fundamental societal changes that Trump plans to achieve together with his dystopian and dysfunctional cabinet and the rest of his garbage coterie? What exactly can we do? Who do we turn to, to lead us in this fray? I belong to a bunch of democratic organizations, but I don’t see what they can do? We will need groups of highly motivated, intelligent lawyers to sue the government constantly in preventing outrageous administrative orders from Trump from being enacted. Democrats in Congress will have to stand fully united to prevent the enactment in Law of the many abhorrent plans that are enshrined in Project 2025 from being enacted. And once they are passed into law, again we will need lawyers to argue constantly and forcefully up to the Supreme Court in order to prevent the easy enactment of those unfair and unjust laws. And of course, given the nature of the court system, including and primarily the Supreme Court, these cases will all fail and we will be left with draconian laws that will need to be altered whenever next a truly democratic government is elected. And when can we hope that to be? The midterms in 2026 are perhaps our only hope. Beyond that I fear we may no longer have fair elections as the system will have been so altered, the minds of American voters so confused and addled by the relentless brain washing of the alt right social media system that it may take decades until at last people wake up to their real miseries and finally revolt against what Trump has always wanted to instigate for his own good and for the good of his oligarchic and kakistory friends. To me the outlook is bleak. I want to fight to reject what is to come, but I feel both helpless and hopeless in this fight. I fear the fact that 50% of the American voters blindly followed a known criminal, a self admitted autocrat, a known nasty, cruel, evil and failed business man, who on top of all of this had failed America just 4 years ago in its most existential threat since WW2, and elected him back into the most powerful position in this country. That fact makes me wonder - how do we oppose what is to come when it seems the majority want exactly what we fear?
The Rubicon's been crossed, Charles. The die is cast, the game rigged. We’re beyond the point of no return, and the time for illusions has passed.
How do we resist Trump's dystopia? Bluntly, we don’t. Tyranny's gates are open, and someone will walk through. It’s not if, but when. We’re watching the unraveling unfold, and it’s ugly.
Maybe it’s time to reframe resistance. Instead of saving a sinking ship, abandon it in defiance. Build something new, untainted, elsewhere. Forget the false hopes in courts or elections that may never come to pass.
Instead, create oases—beacons of reason and democracy. Refuse to play by their rules. We don’t have to wait around to be crushed under the boot of inevitability. Set our own course. Build something better, outside of the corruption and chaos.
Some will fight on, and I’ll cheer them on. But maybe the best way to resist is to build a new way forward and show that there’s another option worth believing in.