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Yes. Unless we get real leadership. The influencers most non regime supporters follow crush real leadership in the cradle, and shout down, belittle, and scapegoat anyone calling for real leadership.
Without organization we are doomed. Every protest should be signing people to innumerable groups cooperating on general forums.
Yes this is it 100%. They are either working for fascists or so fucking greedy they won’t get out of the way. The first fight is destroying the Democratic Party by either taking it over or removing it from the picture.
That’s the only way we get out of this and find leadership.
Our leader will also need to be an unknown working American. No fucking celebrities.
It seems like you are conflating leadership with hierarchy. Where I am, I see plenty of leaders who step up when needed, organizing efforts on the ground. If anything, I think the current situation of the regime points to the danger of coalescing behind a central leader.
With respect to countering this specific empire, decentralized structures are more difficult to counter and have a history of prevailing against even overwhelming force from the US (Vietnam and Afghanistan come to mind). As for signing people up on any list, particularly large ones, that seems like a massive mistake given the surveillance capabilities and budgets commanded by the regime and the average person's understanding of proper security practices.
Nah leadership would be going door to door at this point. Preparing their people for the war that was declared on them in July 2024.
What we have is the fucking Democratic Party and various greed pacs taking advantage of us.
They should be telling us to arm ourselves and where to go. They should be promising us pardons for not paying federal taxes.
We have no fucking leader.
Organization is key, as is something to unite behind, and people rallying the population, providing air cover in public, and most of all getting people to join together.
Obviously that is a bit dangerous in some ways now, but it can still be done, especially if we guard against dangers, and organize our own security, intelligence when it takes off.
Maybe no public speeches at some point, maybe not even one leader, maybe mouthpieces for anonymous leaders.
But we desperately need that leadership on a macro scale, and organization on our own forums to cooperate on what we agree on. Ie fed agents not executing citizens under false pretense is overwhelmingly popular even on the right, even if they do not know it yet.
A real leader MAKES public opinion they do not chase it. They do not need focus groups and polls.
Money is organized and unless we are we are played off each other as we have been, wasting effort fighting under doomed to fail leadership that does not want to restore the republic and sees quashing popular reform as their reason for being. Apparently convinced fascist talk of them is performative.
Yes yes yes!!! Why is this not understood?!
Yes, true leaders are needed for every movement - courageous people who care about the cause rather than themselves. Well, perhaps US citizens will now succeed in giving meaning to the suffering of so many and also to the deaths of those who paid the ultimate price by carrying their suffering and the blatant injustice of their fate like a banner before them, turning it into positive energy to finally put an end to all this. It would be nothing but desirable - for the US as well as for the world.