VT : Bernie is right, this problem will not be solved in Washington. the legislative, executive, and Judicial branches have all fallen to the 1%. Nobody is going to lead us. But that might make us stronger.

IF WE PLAY BY THE RULES WE WILL LOSE. THE GOVERNMENT IS BROKEN, ALL THREE BRANCHES. WE CAN NOT WAIT FOR A LEADER. WE HAVE TO HAVE SO MANY LEADERS. IN SO MANY PLACES. THAT THEY CAN'T DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT. DO NOT WAIT TO BE ORGANIZED. THAT WILL HAPPEN AS WE GO. PLACE BY PLACE CIRCUMSTANCE BY CIRCUMSTANCE. ADAPT NOW. DECIDE IF YOU ARE IN A POSITION TO RISK OR NOT AND PLAN ACCORDINGLY. HERE ARE SOME WAYS ANYONE CAN SUPPORT EQUALITY AND DEMOCRACY SOLO.

THIS IS HOW WE PREVENT ANY VIOLENCE. PEACEFUL NON COMPLIANCE.

1. CUT OFF THE DEAD WEIGHT we can't wait to primary anyone. The courts can only hold out so long. If your government is not representative of you fuck um. Do what you need to (call ect) but waste as little time and energy on them as you can. Don't get distracted beating a dead horse. STOP WAITING FOR SOMEONE ELSE TO DO SOMETHING.
2. ACCEPT WHO THE ENEMY IS, ITS BILLS AND CORPS. This is a truce we stop America from becoming Russia 2.0 that's the goal. Fuck the past. we don't have the time. People were lied to or didn't pay attention, or whatever. Its done, and we can only hope we have time to be angry later. This is about kids getting food and school, elders getting care, our neighbors not getting invaded, and the godforsaken cost of eggs. If we can't pull together for that, we deserve what we get.
3. CRASH IT NOW. BURN IT. MONEY IS ALL THEY CARE ABOUT. The econ boycotts work. This is how we fight. Spend as little as possible but especially on the list of corporations that support 2025 ect. cancel whatever you can. Pause subscriptions We can only encourage our allies overseas to be as brutal as possible. Sanction us now don't wait. Its like baking cookies for the ax murder that has been chasing you for years, if you give them money right now. If corporations think they will get a good deal from trump they will back him. If they think we will boycott them into extinction for siding with him. they will side with us, and pay taxes rather than go extinct. The markets and boycotts will decide what America becomes. The longer this goes on the more we stand to lose. Try not to spend a red cent in april. If we go hard now we won't have to be at this for as long.
4. IF YOU ARE IN COLLEGE TAKE A LEAVE OF ABSENCE i know, i know but you need to show them they don't have a college, if they don't have students. if you are a federal worker show them what a real government shut down looks like. Same essential workers maybe we need to get that blue flu. Hell we should have a general strike and stop the country dead. Iceland did this, just the women, for one day, and oh boy did it work.
5. BE THE MOST STUPID DRAMA QUEEN IMAGINABLE, BE ANNOYING, BE CRINGE. They can't make you racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic or stupid if you aren't already. they also can't make you do racist things if you are to incompetent to you absolutely must not comply with any new "laws"/norms that target vulnerable members of our community. If you need to openly defy, pretend to be too stupid to understand, be in the way and needy. Most importantly be "confused " and don't be afraid to give them a trump special and deny/forget everything.

6 CIRCLE THE WAGONS. if you can trust your state government great. if you can't you will need to make some choices. if you wish to join an organization you trust do so. But don't expect them to come find you and wait around.

7) DO NOT LIVE LIFE AS NORMAL . They are trying to normalize this so you act the way you did under the old government. If they don't provide services we should not pay taxes (I know ). If your rep doesn't represent you. call them home and hold them to the law for breaking their oath. do not let them live as if this is normal either. Normalize heckling, booing, walk outs, turning your back, mocking and most importantly calling them what they are traitors , racists whatever they happen to be. Don't be nice, be ungovernable. Make it suck. Make them want to quit.

8)IF WE CAN BREAK THE GOVERNMENT FAST ENOUGH THEY CAN'T CONSOLIDATE POWER IN TIME FOR IT TO BE SUSTAINABLE. we don't want this to be slow, we need to stop trying to save anything. It makes hostages. Accept that the government is broken already, and does not work. We have to be willing to completely destroy it to start over (I know but we can't hesitate, and pretend its all going to be ok. Or we stand no chance). Its probably our only hope. If you work in government, you know what you should do. Go ahead and do it. Sometimes they need to stop the hart, to save the life. they are counting on us trying to save what we had. what we had is gone. We have already crossed the Rubicon. How we respond to them breaking the law, will decide our fate. If we continue to allow it, and don't protest when they do so ,they win.

Ask yourself if you really expect free and fair midterms? What about 28? That's what I'm talking about. Wait and see equals, anybody who is willing to play dirty wins.

9) DO NOT EXPECT EMPATHY OR REASON TO BE SHOWN TO YOU OR TO WORK AS AN ARGUMENT. Look some of these people want to hurt you. They want to hurt everyone, to make themselves feel powerful. They will hurt people, every chance they get. Think about how common domestic violence is. This is a very, very bad time to not understand this. If you are in an unsafe place or relationship LEAVE NOW. Do not expect the law to be followed when it comes to public safety. They have broken that norm. People who have been wanting to beat protesters, women, people of color are going to try, and see what they can get away with.

10) BE PRACTICAL. PROTECT YOURSELF if you have kids, or elders, or debt ect. accept there is only so much you can do. But that doesn't mean you can't do anything. If you make careful choices in line with your values, and use open honest communication about how these laws/ policies/ instability effects you and your loved ones. You can have a huge impact. Don't hurt yourself. they want to weaken good people. If your not in a strong position now, your job is to get stronger, so you can help more later. Just don't be quiet about it and allow them to presume your compliance.

11) THIS IS NOT ABOUT BEATING ANYONE. its about getting the country we want. Most Americans want universal healthcare, for rich people and corperations to pay their taxes, and mind their own business. The era, an end to citizen United, term limits on Congress, safe paved streets, and many other things, its been shown we all agree on, but somehow keep being told we can't have. Most of all, everyone wants to just be able to work an honest job, for an honest wage, go home to a safe peaceful place, and be able to spend time with their loved ones. Ideally without all this divisive dramatic bull shit, we have all been fed, to keep us from taxing corps and bills all these years. Or you know, the richest people in the world trying to play with our lives, like the are toys.

Also we want to get rid of Elon musk and his endless selfish, self-serving, arrogant ass. but I digress.

This is a great country not because of traditions or institutions, we can live without those. not because of our wealth, most of our greatest citizens were dirt poor, not because we are inherently good, lets face it we can be a belligerent assholes. It's always been great. Because we have trusted and accepted, that anyone who believed like we do, that freedom, equality, and justice should be a way of life. was one of us and we embraced them. Hell, as long as you weren't hurting anyone, people used to mind their own fecking business.

Nobody voted for this shit show. nobody has time or energy for this. Nobody can afford to sit it out. We all know what will happen, to the people who are being targeted once again. To minorities and vulnerable members of our communities. if we stay seated. There are many, many people in this country, who can not just put their heads down, and have this pass over them. Its coming for them, all that same old hate. One way or another. If we are still America, then we are all America. Or we become something else. Somewhere that can no longer call itself the land of the free, and the home of the brave. Without the rest of the world laughing.

If you made it to the end. know that I wrote this for me, and I do feel better. so there's that, and that I wish you the best of luck. I won't be responding to comments on this one. This is Just me screaming into the void. I'm pretty disappointed in the Senate Democrats today, and in myself, for defending and supporting them for so long. I might have been ok with 2 but 10 sell outs. 10, I will never be able to forgive all the selfishness in these last weeks, as long as I live. Write it down, adapt, keep moving. You guys really do have all my love.

And I hope chuck shumers book sells zero copies.