(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . They will beat the Hope outta ya [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2023-12-17 No more “Stupid” people arguments. No more — “ Hope” arguments. Hope as a strategy is about as useful as thoughts and prayers. We all need to find out and plan for fighting. If that word only means direct violence to you — wake up and take your inventory of what your personal strengths are. Enough of the bullshit excuses to avoid standing up. The moment will come where there are only 2 sides. if your side does not look appealing — the ground underneath you will vanish. Weak minded codependent ( large swath of america) will hide behind a bully quicker than you can count to 1, hell they will justify that bully as a hero. Anything for safety in numbers on the winning team. The DNC is beholden to the upperclass they are going to play chicken with democracy because they have to. Only you can stop this and turn the tide. People on your side need to be secured and emboldened to stand up and prepared to make sacrifices to win. Again — if you hear this as a call for violence — quit being weak and take an inventory of your strengths. You can win by being smarter, more cunning, more loving etc …. but you cannot win a fight by not fighting. The call to fight by the GOP is highlighted practically ever 2nd post on KOS whether from staff or contributors. How is that there is not a fight before you? The GOP was afraid of the “fight” frame … how do you know? The used a massive campaign in 2016 against Biden by airing “fight” language coming from the targets they had trained maga on and flamed the need for violence against them Ads of Kamala Harris and Nancy Pelosi using the words “fight” The maga and they Fascists that fund them are a non stop strategy machine to fight and destroy. Like all Authoritarian movements it is based on false arguments of victim hood and made easy for white sadist to go on the attack — be it through bullying, gun violence, using a car as a deadly weapon, attacking on cultural grounds and belittling others — start with the most under-protected, because lets face it: minorities and people of color are not weak — they are unprotected, let’s stop saying weak and encourage strength. [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/12/17/2212267/-They-will-beat-the-Hope-outta-ya?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=more_community&pm_medium=web Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/