We need to swiftly transform No Kings from a Democratic Party spectacle to a grass roots resistance movement.
Isnt no kings specifically to under mine trump so democrats and retake power and the country doesn’t keep imploding? Why would you remove the political party from it, makes no sense.
There is a non-negligeable number of people convinced that all of the Democrat Platform are policies they don’t stand for. They think Obamacare was just Romneycare. Ideological puritans who would rather everyone abstain from participating elections than pick harm minimalization option.
This ideology gets furtherd and promoted by foreign psyops who frequently post on DB0 and Lemmy ML, much in the same vein that Russian operations promoted Bernie Sanders on FaceBook after he had already lost the primary and asked people to vote for Hillary in the general.
Basically everything is burning and some people think adding fuel is better than water.
So you guys WANT the republicans? It’s wild that Trump and the GOP are actively demolishing democracy and you guys still see the Dems as to e enemy. Right wing propaganda and social media rotted your entire country’s already rotted brains
LOL what? I was at both and this take on it is dumb. It is very grass roots. I saw American flags, both right side up and upside down, Mexican flags, Palestinian flags, LGBTQ flags, and more. No Democratic party flags. Yes, frogs, axolotls, spongebobs and Santa’s. You know, democracy.
I’m glad it didn’t happen where you live. But you’re saying this “take is dumb” because you didn’t experience it at two out of thousands of protests, which is like saying, “since it didn’t happen to me, it didn’t happen.”
I saw the democratic establishment propaganda at my local protest. That’s not to say that the protests are bad, but having a party that’s right of center glob onto what is essentially a populist movement and use it as a campaign rally is kind of disheartening.
We need to be voting for actual leftists. Whether they run as a democrat, a green, or an independent.
Article has a point. No kings should embrace local activists who are actually doing things on the ground rather than the corporate politicians who got us in this mess in the first place.
Also be nice to see it turn into kind of a grassroots movement rather than acting as a relief valve for political action.
Yeah my governor gave a speech and he is a democrat and hes great. We got a scrappy young women running this year. I welcome everyone who wants to stop the violation of our constitution and laws by the executive. IE anyone against this attempted facist takeover.
I am sure the governer of your state could find other venues to campaign.
I think it would be infinitely more helpful to let the people on the ground (volunteers and activists that are feeding people and providing other services to those in need while our government flounders) address the people and really humanize the issues while presenting solutions isolated from government shenanigans. We can all help out and do more than working with the DNC and its only solution of electoralism.
In the town I was in, there was no notable aspect of Democratic politics whatsoever. Where are you getting that No Kings is tied to the Democratic party?
Where are you getting that No Kings is tied to the Democratic party?
It’s the kind of conclusion a person comes to if they only think in binary terms.
They can’t imagine being agaist one political party as being anything other than directly supporting that party’s opponent.
If you aren’t leveraging this to get political power back from Republicans then there is no point in the protest. Its not a revolution, its to drum up anti trump sentiment then directed into the mid terms to remove republicans from power.
Uh, no. It is a grass roots thing that the Democrats are on board with. They aren’t much better, but at least they actually want to govern, not have a KKK rally and complain about randos on social media making them feel bad. You have two fucking options, pick the lesser evil, please!!! Or make a better government. Just fucking do something! The whole waiting for someone else to save you thing was cute at first, but pick your fucking selves off the ground and stop having a tantrum like a two year old.
Yes, democrats are being pussies. More action less strong letters
They shut down the government for you, asshole. That is literally the full extent of their power with a pitiful 45:53 ratio in the senate.
