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Pamela Jo Delk's avatar

I am so grateful for your forum and your testimony.

Jack Fruchtman's avatar

Watched you and Jason Stanley late today. Excellent, just excellent!

Peter Turner's avatar

Talk is cheap. Actions matter and you are living proof.

But I have a request. PLEASE… can influencers and media outlets focus on positive, inspiring and action motivated topics.

Everyone is beating a dead horse. If they voted for Biden they voted against Trump. We don’t need anymore “it’s fascism now.”

We need to organize a nationwide movement.

In Poland in the 1980’s, a powerful anti-authoritarian movement called “Solidarity” grew to ten million of its citizens…30% of Poland’s population!!!

No experience with democracy.

In 2024, 30% of those who voted for American democracy is 30 million. If you add 30% of eligible voters who didn’t vote that’s another 30 million.

We have 240 years of running democracy. And we have millions of Americans who lead organizations, trade unions and other groups who are filled with experienced people.

How about harnessing our collective expertise and experience to

self-organize and form non-partisan social networks to defend what we hold dear and launch non violent offensive tactics?

Raise people's hope

Give them insight

Tap their anger & disgust

Fortify their resolve

Activate them

People trust the professionals & tradesmen they know. They trust nothing else.

All of us collectively in our fields need to empower them with their own insight like...why the NIH cancelled funding for cancer will eliminate their child's survival chances Or how closing FEMA will make them homeless & bankrupt.

The courts, peaceful protests, strikes, or boycotts should be used but professional nonpartisan movements are more sustainable and powerful.

Jim Shinn's avatar

When is the Trump administration going to come after Bulwark.com and Substack.com and all of the people on those networks? When will people start to fight back with weapons?

Tayloredtofit's avatar

Oops “Jason” is probably “Janson”in Norwegian. Anyway, I hope so.

Tayloredtofit's avatar

How can we sleep when our beds are burning?(Midnight Oil) sums up what is happening to America and its psyche. I am a political expat who left the country fifty years ago. Eventually I found myself in Norway. Since then I have seen a steady socioeconomic political decline in America, which has now reached the precipice. I believe at this pivotal time, Americans will choose democracy

over fascism. Voices like Miles Taylor and Janson Stanley will be heard in time to stop America from being pushed off into the abyss.

Jim Shinn's avatar

Do you gentlemen expect to be shipped off to concentration camps?