People knew they weren’t coming back from those trains.
They didn’t know exactly how they were going to die, but they knew they wern’t going to live on a farm somewhere. They just didn’t ask questions because that could get you on the next train.
People hid and smuggled and lied for their friends and in-laws. You don’t take that risk from ignorance.
The mind recoils from such a happy vision of the future.
That won’t save you, but if ICE is crashing through your door, you probably aren’t making it anyway.
The destruction of our healthcare infrastructure will accelerate this.
My expectations could not be lower. I’ll be eatatic if nobody has tried to put me in a camp by 2035.
Not at all, but in the primary I’m going to vote for a social Democrat over a centrist.
I’m not going to go for fascism with extra steps when there is even the slightest chance of something better.
They can’t undo it. Each congress sets their own rules. If the Republicans end it while they have the majority, the Democrats would be the biggest cucks on the planet to bring it back when they take the Senate.
Running a milqtoast centrist is just fascism with extra steps. They will do nothing of substance and then people will vote for fascists to enact change.
Hillary won the popular vote and people fucking hated her.
I’m slightly hopeful that the Republicans will nuke the filibuster to end the shutdown. Then we can finally excercise tbe ghost of bipartisanship in the Senate and Americans will have to actually live with the consequences of their votes.
“every one of them will lose their next primary, and Dems will control Congress for decades.”
Your optimism is blinding. The Dems will control Congress for 2 years, maybe 4. 6 at the absolute maximum. Your average Republican can watch their loved ones die because of Republican policies and blame Democrats 2 years later.
Also democrats won’t do anything to make structural change in the economy or wealth of the country, so even if given the reins of power, they will only succeed at not actively making life worse.
Democrats will not stop this. They had their chance and did nothing.
It’s up to us to save ourselves.
What are they supposed to do? Kill trump? I guess they could take out the supreme Court while they are rampaging. This isn’t an Arnold Shwartzenegger movie.
They shut down the government. The absolute nuclear option. They used the last bit of power our government affords them.
The rest is on us.
Only an absolute collapse in support for the GOP will affect them. The SCOTUS is going to rule against section 2 of the voting rights act and then southern states are going to jerrymander another 12 seats away from the Dems. That’s not insurmountable, but they will need a national lead of 6% in the popular vote just to break even.
Accepting? That exactly the person they want. Someone who will follow orders no matter how heinous.
This is the answer. ICE is operating by the same rules the Ferguson police were during the 2014 riots, and the George Floyd protests in 2020. They can do whatever the my want up to and including break your door down in the middle of the night and shoot you while you sleep like they did to Breyonna Taylor.
The beatings I will continue until the truth gets through.
There is wide latitude between Kim Jong Un and Putin. Between Putin and Mao.
It can get better or worse and that will always be true.
How much you are willing to risk is a personal choice.
Get to know your neighbors, get back in touch with friends and family that you know are sympathetic. Give your time and effort to groups in your area that are resisting, whether legally, physically, or however that looks to you.
Starting the French underground is a big lift, but the French underground did not spring fully formed out of nothing. You have to find ways you can help.