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Thanks for your effort. I'm not here to change my mind. Maybe in the future but there is a short window now and people need to get loud about it.
We want change, the status quo will have to change too.
Okay, but "If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together". You're on a fast track for burning your bridges without making the impact you're expecting and I'm just trying to warn you.
The problem is MAGA are much better at the latter then you or me. So my question is, why not go together?
Going together is ideal, that's what I'm saying. But going together inherently is about popularity, and remember Trump won the popular vote this time... MAGA works on feelings and their followers believe they are the ones being persecuted. If you match their crazy, they're just gonna double down and get crazier. Instead get oranized. Join or coordinate a protest nearby, talk to coworkers but try to change their mind of they don't agree and if they do agree talk about what they feel comfortable doing to further the cause (try to keep from getting fired, being broke really takes away a lot of your free time to do these things, I know it sucks), continue discussing online and take a look around those MAGA bubbles (keep your friends close and your enemies closer). Right now you're venting to an already left wing/progressive bubble at the least, I'm suggesting you help make fascism not so popular which means interacting outside this bubble and actually convincing them why they should listen.