We have to fight harder!

We’re in 1930s Germany, and we aren’t learning from the German resistance that we need to move faster and more forcefully. When I say forcefully, I mean financially disruptive. We are the labor force. We are the money spenders who keep the system running. Shut it down—no work, no spending on anything but essentials.

It was brought up in my local group’s phone chat last night: the farmers are prepping a strike. Let’s help them. Strike with them. Help them coordinate the dumping of manure on highways to block them. Get transit workers to call out for three days. Get truck drivers to call out for a week. Organize a mass mobilized protest that occupies the National Mall until Trump is gone. Hold mass sit-ins at Palantir locations. Form mass human body walls against ICE. They can’t arrest all of us. Disrupt their operations peacefully.

These are ideas, but genuinely, I believe these are the final tools we have left before we must listen to the Declaration of Independence—which, by the way, directly addresses us, because the same things they talked about happening to them are happening to us. I just read it again last night and cried, because we’re not heeding the warnings history is giving us.

Sorry if I’m sounding too aggressive for some, but we just aren’t moving fast enough. None of us are. We’re trying, and a lot of us are doing more than others. If we go, we can go with peace knowing we tried. But these people want us dead. If we aren’t expending every tool short of violence at our disposal, then maybe we want this subconsciously.

We even have our own history to look back at and learn from. The Civil Rights Movement showed that peaceful civil disobedience and disruptive financial actions could elicit real change. We must look at the examples set by MLK and other civil rights leaders as a guide for using direct action to leverage political change.

We all want Trump and his administration to be removed. Let’s use these acts of civil disobedience I’ve mentioned to leverage the removal of this administration through the systems we have in place. If that does not work, then we must heed the advice of our forefathers, or be forced to live through similar horrors that the German people lived through.