Protests Needed

 From Indivisible leaders.  

Taking down dictatorships always requires personal courage, ownership of as a member of the opposition and accepting the reality there will be sacrifices

 

But one thing that’s hard to predict is courage. As Leah and I wrote in a new Nation op-ed that Rachel Maddow generously quoted on air:

These are frightening times, and frightening times call for active, courageous leadership. Musk and Trump are really seeking to annex the operations of the state to their pet vanity projects, bigotries, and conspiracy theories, but our enemy is not one or two men. Our enemy is apathy, cynicism, and fatalism; the pernicious, authoritarian-friendly belief that we are merely victims of world events rather than active participants in a global struggle for freedom and justice. Every time one of us -- a family member, a community organizer, a representative, a senator -- takes a step forward in this fight, a thousand pairs of eyes watch and learn. Courage is contagious.

 

 There is no social change unless there is a strong and organized social movement with healthy leadership and clear goals. If you don’t know what that means, go back and study the civil rights movement. And the state of emergency, the state of exception that we are in, requires exceptional counter-measures. The same old same old counseled by professional party consultants, and web-based non-profits and Superpacs are dead ends. We are not there yet, but we will be before this is over, because we must.++