I put together a little list that I think will be helpful for others, because little about what I do personally is going to change. A mini What is to be Done? of sorts.

1. Get organized. Join a Leftist org, find solidarity with fellow comrades, and protect each other. The Dems will not save you, it is up to the Workers to protect themselves. The Party for Socialism and Liberation and Freedom Road Socialist Organization both organize year round, every year, because the battle for progress is a constant struggle, not a single election. See if there is a chapter near you, or start one! Or, see if there’s an org you like more near you and join it, the point is that organizing is the best thing any leftist can do.

2. Read theory. A good primer is Blackshirts and Reds. It will help contextualize what fascism is, what causes it, and how to stop it. I can offer a good introductory reading list for Marxism if you’d like, but this is a good starting point.

3. Aggressively combat white supremacy, misogyny, queerphobia, and other attacks on marginalized communities. Cede no ground.

4. Be more industrious, and self-sufficient. Take up gardening, home repair, tinkering. It is through practice that you elevate your problem-solving capabilities. Not only will you improve your skill at one subject, but your general problem-solving muscles get strengthened as well. Theory guides practice, which sharpens theory to be reapplied to better practice.

5. Learn self-defense. Get armed, if practical. Be ready to protect yourself and others. The Democrats will not save us, we must save each other.

6. Be persistent. If you feel like a single water driplet against a mountain, think of the Grand Canyon. Oh, how our efforts pile up! With consistency, every rock, boulder, even mountain, can be drilled through with nothing but steady and persistent water droplets.

Stop playing nice, the most respect I had for the Democrats was when they said things that they later walked back or apologized for. They should have just said them louder.
They’re fucking garbage, call them garbage and own it.

A New New Deal.

An ecomic reformation that advantages labor and forces economic success made through speculative investment to pay heavily back into the commons that made their success possible AND mitigate accumulating society/culture warping levels of wealth, to rebuild public education, to make higher education public and free based on a academic merit because that’s what a wealthy society would do if it cared about planting trees for their children whose shade they know they’ll never sit in. You know the meaningful stuff we abandoned to chase plastic crap and bigger SUVs and grind culture.

We won’t do it. We’re boned. The only two parties are bought and paid for. But it’s about ecomic equity. We don’t have any. The people with all the power/capital will use that power/capital to ensure we won’t have any, if not through their for profit media propaganda, through captured government force.

Stop being cucked pc libs, to borrow a phrase. Stop the institutional bullshit, no more civility nonsense, call trump a piece of shit and double down on it. When it comes time to talk policy, as in when you are specifically asked about it and not a minute sooner, talk about the opposition’s first so everyone knows it’s awful. Be aggressive, stop apologizing or trying to take the high road. Be a real god damned person! No fake bullshit, say what you believe and believe what you say. No more shrinking back for some non-existent moderate Republican, fucking stick by what you say and then go farther. Or if you genuinely do have a heelturn, be open about it and go harder in that direction.

Better policy would be very nice, but before any of that they just need to act like real fucking people.

First you gotta get a few billionaires to bankroll the “grassroots” movement… This is probably where the hang up will be