We need to swiftly transform No Kings from a Democratic Party spectacle to a grass roots resistance movement.
Yep, what is it they say: stronger divided than united? Makes total sense.
The biggest issue with No King’s, at least out of my perspective is that it is only centered around Trump and his cronies, and doesn’t actually target the system that keeps churning out people like Trump, produces them and puts them into power. Americans believe that Trump happened to them like a natural disaster would, and that they were sadly just ill prepared. They fail to see and correctly point out that the system thrives on people like Trump and actively pursues putting them into positions of power. Until that isn’t addressed, these protests will bring about no material change.
At my No King’s, a politician made their request for us to vote for them. I will consider it, as they dared to be amongst the plebian rabble, rather than the ivory halls of the bluebloods.
Oh look, more disinformation and division mongering.
And its posted by a dbzer0. Of course.
LOL what? I was at both and this take on it is dumb. It is very grass roots. I saw American flags, both right side up and upside down, Mexican flags, Palestinian flags, LGBTQ flags, and more. No Democratic party flags. Yes, frogs, axolotls, spongebobs and Santa’s. You know, democracy.
I legit didn’t know there was a Dem flag. Is it just a flag with a donkey?
Also. This post is definitely propaganda b.s
I saw nothing whatever to do with the Democratic party at any of the protests I went to.
I went to a No Kings protest with a couple thousand people. It didn’t seem partisan in the least to me. I saw 0 signs supporting any politician. All I saw was anti fascist and anti oligarchical messaging.
They all think fascism only comes from the red side
You got examples of fascists on the left, other than the tankies over on lemmy.ml and lemmygrad? Do you even know what fascism means?
Well, for starters, there are no fascists on the left, because Democrats are not left. Democrats are right wing blue fascists. Their ratchet effect, which keeps ratcheting the entire country to the right, along with the Overton Window creates the circumstances for Republicans to go further to the right as well as the politics of the entire country. Enabling fascism does as much damage as those that are blatantly fascist.
There are red fash, we often call them tankies for short.
The ratchet effect is a thought-terminating cliche used by people with limited understanding of politics or the real world.
And for liberals that refuse to acknowledge that they have become right-wing reactionaries. They keep their head in the sand so that they don’t have to see that they’re becoming the things that they claim to hate
The ratchet effect is a thought-terminating cliche used by liberals that refuse to acknowledge that they have become right-wing reactionaries?
I believe that The No Kings Movement has three fundamental tasks – 1) to assure that the Democratic Party does not gain control of the coalition, 2) to expand the coalition to include those without an institutional voice (the poor, the unhoused, the unregistered and non-voters, and most importantly, the millions of undocumented US residents at risk for MAGA’s genocidal zeal). The third task is the most difficult and subsumes the goal of limiting the influence of the Democratic Party. 3) The No Kings Day project must take the critical jump from protest to civil disobedience.
Nice to see they remembered that MAGA is a part of the problem.
I’m not a big fan of the Democratic party, but I wouldn’t put stopping them as the number one goal.
Article has a point. No kings should embrace local activists who are actually doing things on the ground rather than the corporate politicians who got us in this mess in the first place.
Also be nice to see it turn into kind of a grassroots movement rather than acting as a relief valve for political action.
The Communist Party USA had a table with brochures at the event, but no CPUSA representative addressed the crowds
the commies will come and ruin this lovely consensus to the benefit of their authoritarian chums
In the town I was in, there was no notable aspect of Democratic politics whatsoever. Where are you getting that No Kings is tied to the Democratic party?
Where are you getting that No Kings is tied to the Democratic party?
It’s the kind of conclusion a person comes to if they only think in binary terms.
They can’t imagine being agaist one political party as being anything other than directly supporting that party’s opponent.
Yeah my governor gave a speech and he is a democrat and hes great. We got a scrappy young women running this year. I welcome everyone who wants to stop the violation of our constitution and laws by the executive. IE anyone against this attempted facist takeover.
I am sure the governer of your state could find other venues to campaign.
I think it would be infinitely more helpful to let the people on the ground (volunteers and activists that are feeding people and providing other services to those in need while our government flounders) address the people and really humanize the issues while presenting solutions isolated from government shenanigans. We can all help out and do more than working with the DNC and its only solution of electoralism.
I mean if you mean the way washington compaigned for president in the revolutionary war. Our state is being invaded and he is doing a good job. Regardless he was not the only one to speak and the majority were activists from the various group that worked to get the event going.
Anybody who share the same noble values should be allowed
Lmao, what? This is a really dumb take and sounds like a desperate maga, tbh. They didn’t like hearing speeches from dems. Just go for a walk with the rest of the protestors.
It’s just the new ML plan. Haven’t you noticed how they all criticize the dems—but never Trump? Have you ever heard one of them criticize Trump in regard to Gaza? Have you ever heard them criticize any right wing American? I can’t recall that happening.
ML love MAGA.
Honestly this 100% rings true in my experience ^
When we do criticize Republicans liberals think we are one of them.
Give me an example of how you would criticize a republican in a way that would make me think you’re a republican.
I expect you do give a non-answer, change the topic, and make person insults. Will I be right?
That’s not what I said, I said. When liberals hear leftists, socialist and communists criticizing Republican, you assume that we are one of you and simply agree. So you think you’re only hearing us criticize one side, Democrats, because that’s the only ones you’re listening to.
I don’t know about anybody else but when I hear you talking I know it’s just to crush the west at any cost, and nothing you say can truly be trusted.
Paranoid much?
lol, not at all. You all make your intentions pretty obvious. And, I don’t see you denying it 💋🤡
The Democrats are a rich people party too. They’re not your friends, they’re just the lesser evil.
Right now, they’re not nazis. That’s all I care about. We need anyone against nazis on our side. No one should be dividing anyone up, unless you’re dividing the nazi regime.
The article here doesn’t look to me to be advocating dividing people up, but rather making sure the movement is not controlled by the Democrats. Democrats should be part of it, not in charge of it.
I understand where you are coming from and agree with the sentiment, but at the end of the day either they need to form a party and quickly, as if it isn’t all together by August 2026 it has no hope of doing anything if there actually are fair & free elections some how, or they all have to vote out Democrats they don’t like and vote in new ones who fit their views better using the already established democrat committees.
States like Florida require you to have at least 1% vote in the last election and a committee with 50 board members set up and in place with the rules of how you would perform your primary and what not. Which is why they would have to establish it all and have it in place and ultimately surrender the Governor seat of Florida to the Republicans in the 2026 election to ensure they could exist on the ballot in 2028 for a presidential candidate. So it’s either organize quickly, or just rework what’s there.
No Kings is apolitical except for the idea that autocracy/royalty is un-American. As soon as you put it into a political box it will alienate a bunch of people.
you are the one dividing people up, duh
The Dems is 2025 are the same Dems that voted for Jimmy Carter in 1976.
Meanwhile, the GOP is ready to hang Ronald Reagan as a woke Liberal.
Dems in 2025 are first term trump Republicans.
The Dems in 2025 are the people who lost the presidency to the most incompetent man in the world. Twice. I do not think it’s smart to trust them to be the stewards of what seems to be shaping up to be the primary resistance movement.
As much as I hate the liberal purity test culture, you’ve hit the nail on the head. As much as the movement should use any and all available allies, people really shouldn’t forget this point when the smoke settles
I only see right wingers demanding support for policy that is both immoral and electorally dumb complaining about “liberal purity tests”.
You sure about that? It seems like you’re doing exactly that
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It would help if you got more specific; name the policy in question.
Most recent complaint about purity tests and circular firing squads I’ve seen was over the purity test of not being a warcrininal with a totemkomf tattood on your chest. Before that it was trying to silence anyone trying to stop the dems from choosing wildly unpopular policy, that ultimately got Trump elected.
there’s the targeted message of the month!
There is no lesser evil, only evil.
Stupid is as stupid does
Liberal acceptance of a lesser evil allows a slightly larger evil with each increment has led to someone to the likes of trump occupying the White House. Your less evil has resulted in incremental fascism
That is so fucking stupid.
A lesser evil can also lead to less evil incrementally as progress is made. What you’re arguing for is to say that people should take a lesser evil and then take EVEN LESS evil than that. Your insistence on perfection will kill people.
I get that you want to be sanctimonious, but saving one person now is better than saving two people tomorrow, because it has the potential to also save two people tomorrow.
Watch as I use your same logic against you: Your no evil strategy resulted in Trump, and those Palestinians are grateful that you exterminated them faster. Nice going!
See how stupid that is?
There has been no progress made. The only difference is Democrats keep shifting to the right with Republicans. In case you don’t know turning into first-term Trump Republicans is not progress
Cool, you didn’t listen. You are the average ML. You should feel proud to add this to your list of accomplishments.
We need rich people to fund the rebellion! Duh.
I only read the first paragraph. It sounded incredibly disingenuous. These rallies are impactful because of the turnout.
Without the democratic organization, it would not be remotely as impactful. Think that is exactly what the author of this article wants.
Also the difference between a democratic backed Indivisible group vs decentralized 50501. Indivisible brings a lot more people to protest.
I’ve never even heard of 50501. So that’s exactly what they want.
These fucking comments are the reason shit is so bad in the US. It’d be funny if it wasn’t so sad.
It’s not a resistance movement. It’s an echo chamber parade.
Resistance against what?
Against the Democrats. It appears that they are the real problem according to this opinion piece.
