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Ah yes, the best way to make your voice heard is to become silent.
Eventually anybody would get tired of screaming into the void about equality. At some point you have to priorities your own mental health and protect yourself. It's completely normal to feel this way.
I totally understand your sentiment, but I also fully understand this sentiment:
Big jilted lover vibes. A nation isnt a person.
It might not be a bad strategy. Trump is famously undisciplined and his lackeys are treacherous. The best chance for survival might very well be to sit back and let them fuck up. Last time around he didnt manage to build the wall or repeal the ACA, not because activists stopped him, but because his own allies couldn't stop tripping over their own feet. Without someone like McConnell to hand him finished packages to rubber stamp, he could go four more years spinning in circles without implementing much of anything.
And peaceful protest is a nonstarter. Hes itching to have people killed, and giving him four years to sift through the general staff to find officers willing to do it will make things much worse in 2028.
Here’s the thing: the economy is picking up steam quickly as it always does when Democrats are in charge. If Trump does nothing (and no pandemic hits) he will cruise to a third term (and yes that’s with this SC.
For the rich, yes, but not for the lower class.
If he manages to implement absolutely none of his policy goals, it is plausible that the economy coasts along and does not fall off a cliff. But still that leaves everyone in the same spot. Hell be sitting there in 2028 having accomplished none of his stated policy goals after 8 years in office. His chances of getting off his ass and completing any of his talking points would not be improved.
He's gonna die and leave enthusiastic 40 year old fascists in charge.
The democratic party?
There's a good chance. However, without a central figure to rally behind those fascists will fall on each other like bbq covered zombies.
I hate to say it, but there are plenty of other lightning rods in the party. Heck Nikki Haley could manage to pull a coup inside the GOP if he dies. That's the real problem for normal people. Whomever the GOP nominates they will rally around like the second coming.
Does it matter if your voice is heard if nobody listens?
That's what conservative minorities say too... just an FYI...
Yes, it matters.
Even if for no other reason than to make the nature of the oppression clear. Not talking about it normalizes it, gives tacit permission for it.
Who says they're not going to talk about it? They're just going to stop doing community driven get-out-the-vote campaigns. This article is literally about how black women are a major block in the Democratic party that handles that kind of community organizing in getting people registered to vote and getting them all the info they need to vote. How's stepping back from that "not talking about it?"
This article is literally about how they help others get their voices heard, but it's black women who "aren't talking about it?" Please.
But, as indivuals, do they owe us the effort of helping our voices be heard? Because that's what this is actually about: that traditionally, black women have been some of the strongest organizers within the Democratic party. The work they do helps others get their voices heard through their votes. This year they basically got told that nobody cared, including from black men. When this is about black women helping others get their voice heard, it's pretty clear that right now nobody cares about the work they've put in to do that.
I don't blame anyone for putting in decades of hard work and feeling like it's no longer their responsibility to get others organized and get their voices heard, when the majority has made perfectly clear that they don't give one hot damn about all that hard work. Why should that job be left to some of the most vulnerable amongst us culturally, anyway?