The latter is the better choice but it will not work as long as the leftists have control of mass media. Mass movements work by achieving WUNC (Worthiness, unity, numbers, and commitment). The leftists media can prevent our protest movement from attaining WUNC. Look at how the mass media smothered and hid the US trucker protest. How it keeps political prisoners from becoming heroes. Who even knows who Lauren Handy or Tamara Lich are?
When you think about it, almost every victory of the left in its Long March through the institutions came from the left's control of the mass media. Who would have even heard of BLM or transgenderism if we controlled big newspapers and TV news?
To defeat the leftists, we would need to take control of the mass media or build a strong alternative, in spite of attempts to silence us that would doubtless come from our rulers and their media. Think Rumble+Substack+other independents, but bigger and more coordinated. It could be done, probably. MrsS (below) is right, they can't really jail or kill us all. Their power comes from our weakness and complacency.
"I would merely like to understand how it happens that so many people, so many villages, so many cities, so many nations, can suffer under a tyranny that has no other power than the power they give it."
Étienne de La Boétie in The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude (1577)
In 1906, Alfred Henry Lewis stated, “There are only nine meals between mankind and anarchy.” Since then, his observation has been echoed by people such as Leon Trotsky. The key here is that, unlike all other commodities, food is the one essential that cannot be postponed. It could very well work out that way. Until then, though, recall Thoreau who was quoted as saying in 1854 that most men lead lives of quiet desperation.
I'm afraid that the Spirit of 1776 is long gone, replaced by modern apathy.
"C'mon you keyboard warriors..."
It seem that in general, there are two choices:
-Armed uprising
-Peaceful mass protests
The latter is the better choice but it will not work as long as the leftists have control of mass media. Mass movements work by achieving WUNC (Worthiness, unity, numbers, and commitment). The leftists media can prevent our protest movement from attaining WUNC. Look at how the mass media smothered and hid the US trucker protest. How it keeps political prisoners from becoming heroes. Who even knows who Lauren Handy or Tamara Lich are?
When you think about it, almost every victory of the left in its Long March through the institutions came from the left's control of the mass media. Who would have even heard of BLM or transgenderism if we controlled big newspapers and TV news?
To defeat the leftists, we would need to take control of the mass media or build a strong alternative, in spite of attempts to silence us that would doubtless come from our rulers and their media. Think Rumble+Substack+other independents, but bigger and more coordinated. It could be done, probably. MrsS (below) is right, they can't really jail or kill us all. Their power comes from our weakness and complacency.
"I would merely like to understand how it happens that so many people, so many villages, so many cities, so many nations, can suffer under a tyranny that has no other power than the power they give it."
Étienne de La Boétie in The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude (1577)
"Defeating the leftists..."
In 1906, Alfred Henry Lewis stated, “There are only nine meals between mankind and anarchy.” Since then, his observation has been echoed by people such as Leon Trotsky. The key here is that, unlike all other commodities, food is the one essential that cannot be postponed. It could very well work out that way. Until then, though, recall Thoreau who was quoted as saying in 1854 that most men lead lives of quiet desperation.
I'm afraid that the Spirit of 1776 is long gone, replaced by modern apathy.