Radical action

[Russ]

I'm starting to think radical action is necessary to save our country. By save it I mean save democracy in the USA, hopefully at least for the foreseeable future. We need to be making plans for how to prevent another Trump, besides voting. It's not to make sure immigrants can't vote. Non-citizens already can't vote, legally. Some become citizens (that happens) - just like other democratic countries. Republicans are worried the ones who become citizens will vote democrat, so they want to get them out before they get the chance to become citizens. Less educated republican voters who drink all the coolaid they can get even believe non-citizens are voting, or that immigrants are granted US citizenship immediately (my sister in-law said as much).

If they earn their citizenship, I say so be it - I want citizens to choose their leaders, and I acknowledge they might vote better due to better information. I wasn't as well informed as I am now, and I do regret my vote for Bush Jr. because he shouldn't have gone into Iraq in my opinion, especially with a lie (about WMD's).

I just learned about this idea:
The idea is to close accounts - like your facebook or amazon accounts because the guys who own them seem to be supporting Trump, or at least bowing to Trump's demands. You could handle the inconvenience for the next year - that's the important one. This one leading up to the mid-terms.

We need to be educating those around us - probably by talking politics - the one thing we hate doing because it's risky. It can harm a relationship if done wrong.

Nobody likes to be preached to, except for maybe a religous leader, but the preaching I mean is about politics. We don't want the influence. We feel like by listening we're being disloyal, to our original tribe, the ones we loved. We try not to have empathy for the opposite side. It happens to kids in divorce - they feel they need to be loyal to their dad's or their mom's ideas about politics. My divorced parents had opposite views.

I remember defining the difference between republicans and democrats in school for the class. I said something like, "democrats want to help to poor. republicans want the poor to help themselves." I don't know what I said, so I inserted that from my today brain. I wish it was that simple. These days it's, "the republicans are supporting a racist dictator, the democrats are powerless because the voters voted in a bunch of republicans who are afraid of the price they'll pay if they get in Trump's way. Anyway those ideas about loyalty to a specific US political party are dumb - they lead to bad decisions like voting for Trump because he's the republican.

We have a problem. We (some of you actually) voted him in, now we have to vote for people who'll stop him. I don't want to live in a dictatorship. I don't want to give him 2 more years of free reign.