I dont even get what theyre trying to accomplish here. Like, obviously the right is trying to provoke a civil war, right? But what happens when nobody really takes the bait? Are we just going to have hundreds of troops twiddling their thumbs in the middle of chicago waiting for something to happen?

Im convinced your average american decided who they were in middle school and have barely changed as a person beyond getting larger. It explains too much.

Didnt he say something about doing this months ago and nobody knew how it was supposed to work? Somehow I doubt he suddenly figured out how its supposed to work.

I think Trump is gonna keep trying to get it to happen, but I dont think anything will come from it other than a lot of disgruntled canadians.

Is Trump genuinely trying to speedrun the collapse of the American Empire?

Horrifying concept. If I live that long I'm going to be yelling at kids from my porch about that.

I feel like ever since the early 2010s, the general cultural aesthetic has shifted to be whatever is the least "offensive" to the largest group of people, while also being incredibly bland to be as cheap to produce as possible. I do really miss more vibrant and varied aesthetic in popular culture.

Good post OP. I just made a comment to my local liberal-y friends about joining some leftist organizations out there and they immediately started planning looking around and joining some. It's way easier than you might think people.

I definitely get your concern, but while the libs are lashing out like that I don't think you should take it that seriously. The people who can be worked with and recruited aren't the ones talking right now, so its important we can find them and work with them before the right does.

The realization that theres a non insignificant amount of Americans who hate the status quo but didn't vote for Trump is actually a good wake up call. Its going to be an absolute uphill battle, but leftism actually has a chance of having an actual movement in America.

Im gonna see if theres any orgs I can join near me, and I hope that everyone else can too.

Man it sucks how you can only do politics once every four years. If only there was a way to engage politics outside election years.

I think your comment about leftism slowly rebuilding in the west is a good one. I've seen a lot of people dismayed about how there was literally 0 leftism or even hints at appealing to leftists during this election, but ultimately that's because a real left wing movement can't come from the government, it has to start at ground level.