a descriptive answer, not an endorsement: a lot of people disapprove of this war but "starting wars" is "just something the US does" and i don't see that alone as tipping the scales for him, tho i believe fallout will mount
there have been mass protests. mass civil disobedience is more elusive. IMO a lot of people (def congress, who are bought & paid for) are waiting for midterms, without confronting that the "normal" political system can't unwind this, it delivered this
sorry, i may have been unclear: there have been big protests against his policies and his presidency; the ones against the war per se have been smaller. but there is going to be another mass protest next wknd and it will include antiwar
the problem is really what/whether the big one-day protests are building towards. i think they're important in some ways and ambivalent in others. but i think this one will be the biggest yet, too--people are VERY mad about ICE, Iran, Epstein
because it was you i did not take it that way! i was going to bed last night when i posted, but trying to answer genuinely and thoroughly because there are a lot of moving, or rather stuck parts here, hope it doesn't seem defensive cos not meant that way. in addition to this country being a semi-fascist evil empire to begin with, we're currently living downstream of a decades-long project to swing all the levers towards minority rule. he's v unpopular & not v competent AND YET
❤️ thanks. where i am the weather got better which is immensely helpful, but the medium and long term prospects are 🌡️ 🔥 😭
last thing: he's v unpopular but still more popular than he should be. for that i blame vile deep-seated supremacies, and media ecologies. i do think the economy is going to go south tho and then more people will become even more enraged. i think he's in office till no longer useful, i guess? then what... liberation does not run thru the D party, for sure
Pauline von Hellermann
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