I highly doubt the left will do anything uncivil. How can they win back the country? Is it too late?

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    I’m not sure that we do. Not in our lifetimes anyway.

    With a functional justice department we’d have a chance. There’s nothing to stop them from tweaking the electoral lines. There’s nothing to stop them from not certifying an election. We’re about to have the scotus filled with young like-minded Republicans. We’re about to have every federal judge biased for them.

    Even having both sides of Congress the best thing we could do would be to status quo because every time a veto is overturned the scotus could just stamp it down as unconstitutional.

    The president has God King status, he can have opponents jail for executed.

    The thing is even if none of these things were in play, The popular vote just voted for a dictatorship. He was utterly and absolutely clear and anyone that says he was joking around doesn’t actually believe that they’re just too embarrass socially to announce that they themselves are racist/fascist/misogynist. There is nothing here to win back. We’re better than 50% rotten to the core and those people aren’t going away.

    Even this election wasn’t right versus left it’s right versus more right. If you put a true left candidate in they’re just going to get murdered. (That may or may not be literal)

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      I’m not sure that we do. Not in our lifetimes anyway.

      I don’t understand this sentiment as I’m hearing it a lot.

      We’ve elected a fascist into the highest office. We’re cooked. There’s a lot we can do right now, but the most important thing is organizing. Organizing your community, your family, your town/village/city. Organizing mutual aid, direct action, and resistance. How much more do we need until people actually get off their asses and start doing something about it? Like the time for peaceful and democratic means of avoiding fascism was before the election. But a fascist is now in power, so are we going to wait until the troops are rolling down the street to do anything? I’m not saying go out and just commit wanton acts of violence in the name of revolution, but the longer we wait the more difficult it will become to get organized, involved, and yes armed.

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        I don’t understand this sentiment

        There’s a lot we can do right now, but the most important thing is organizing

        Organizing? Resistance? Armed? That’s honestly insane.

        You’re going to organize against half the US? Gonna start a civil war with every last (fully armed) enemy in your own backyard?

        They could blockade cities from food and shut down any movement in 3 days.

        The Civil War worked efficiently because there was a battlefront. This is more of a Republican Soup.

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      There’s nothing to stop them from tweaking the electoral lines.

      Given that the Democrats have known the districts have been gerrymandered to hell and back for decades now, why haven’t they spent any time at all doing their own redistricting, rather than strongly pushing agendas that affect 0.5% of the country?

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        5 hours ago

        Oh dems have. But you have to have control of the state to do that. Hogan (R governor) tried his damnest to unwrap central Maryland from Western Maryland.