in_my_honest_opinion

Shut down ICE. You’ll be the party in power. Fix voting access, nationalize mail in voting resources (states run the elections)

Promote down ballot leftists

Repeal citizens united

They’ll never lose another national election

Hey, you still bringin your macaroons to the gun club potluck Dale? It’s this Sunday I called Nancy and she said she’d be at John Redcorns’ and didn’t know what your plans were.

Churches are some of the only third spaces left unfortunately.

Fund your local libraries, organize book clubs, go to the independent record shop and put up fliers.

Do this before ICE comes to your town.

How to organize a rapid response from a very high level with further detailed resources. https://southerncoalition.org/resources/rapid-response-101/

Good general advice on organizing, also a good resource to find groups near you that are likely aligned. https://www.fiftyfifty.one/organizer-resources

I would argue that there should be a simplified section and a classic ALL THE THINGS version under a “Would you like to know more?” button. I cannot tell you the hours I’ve spent following wikipedia rabbit holes and how rewarding that has been to me.

Ummm then why is he still pushing for more ICE in MN?

https://www.timesnownews.com/world/us/us-news/who-is-judge-katherine-menendez-federal-judge-allows-ices-operation-metro-surge-to-continue-in-minnesota-article-153539751

That’s ok. We can do it ourselves

How to organize a rapid response from a very high level with further detailed resources. https://southerncoalition.org/resources/rapid-response-101/

Good general advice on organizing, also a good resource to find groups near you that are likely aligned. https://www.fiftyfifty.one/organizer-resources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loyal_opposition is why

Bullshit. By posting this in a public forum you’re already on the list. Less doom more zoom. Talk to your neighbors and build community. Join the strike today. Do something besides gaze in awe at the technical structure of the state.

There are so many more of us than there are of them. Fuck living in fear. We just gotta eat one or two of these bastards. The rest will fall in line.

Good, lets get every fucking american on it. If everyone is on it, no one is.

We’re already at the third box… ammo box is next.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_boxes_of_liberty

That could be spun into a positive nom de guerre. May I suggest 'lil squirt instead?

Where are you getting food grade sulferic acid? Asking for a friend.

They’re gearing up to invalidate the Midterms.

We focus so much on the higher-profile races and don’t put forward enough city council, school board, state House races, etc.,

I don’t think it’s a lack of interest or understanding that change comes from the bottom. I think it’s more insidious than that. A lot of people on the left cannot afford to run for office in their city, nor get the time off of work to campaign.

There is also a lack of third spaces where people can talk to each other face to face. So few people can disagree or come to consensus now without it feeling like a personal attack. There’s a really good book I read “High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out” by Amanda Ripley

It’s not about being complicit, nor is it about giving Nazis space in the general culture. However it is about talking to people you don’t agree with and listening to what they have to say and finding common ground on more school funding, more social services. Numbers are our strength and solidarity is our greatest weapon.

Sorry for the frustration in my voice but I’m kinda getting sick and tired of the ratchet effect happening in America. I hope something coalesces around a further left candidate than Klobachar, I know Ilhan Omar has some current talk around her, if she’d even run is another question. I know that for the US Minnesota does turn out the vote more than elsewhere nationally but there’s still a quarter of the population on average who don’t vote.

All that being said, good luck to you and yours. A lot of what I’m hearing, and the people I’m organizing with are reinforcing the idea that we need more leftists in local politics. It’s only gonna change from the ground up.

Sure, but you don’t seem to be proposing any change or thinking about how they could do better. You just kinda repeat media talking points and the same outlook that establishment dems keep using to eek out a win in a suppressed voting block that doesn’t turn out for milquetoast candidates. Minnesota is currently activated and organized, if there were to be a change it would have to harness this momentum and move forward now.

The only way the Dems win is if they move left.

I’d love to see that, especially after that community meeting that got disrupted

Sounds like we need local folks to start running in city elections to prevent more fuckery.