The most effective thing we Americans can do right now is to organize MASSIVE protests in every major city. Let’s show them what actual peaceful protests look like. We should use the same tactics, occupy government buildings, marches, maybe even a mural or two in front of Trump Tower?
We Americans have been marginalized and our civil rights have been taken from us. So we can look to our past to see how those civil rights were won for other marginalized groups of people. Widespread protests, sit-ins, and marches to voice our complaints, but also to remind everyone that they have a voice in this country. Also, to remind the ruling class that they serve at our privilege.
Of course, they’ll send out their goons. That’s exactly what we want. Because their violence is what we will exploit.
Let videos of soy-boy, black-clad antifa thugs beating up marchers spread across the internet. Live-stream the marches. It’ll be the modern day “police dogs and water-hoses.”
We should provoke them, but without retaliating. We simply “turn the other cheek” and refuse to fight back. It will take discipline and probably some training and coordination, but the non-violence aspect is critical to this working, as it was in the 60’s. We leave the guns at home and have the courage to face the brown-shirts.
Don’t get me wrong, I love watching the Proud Boys serving up some piping hot street justice to those basement-dwelling pansies, but as a strategy, it’s counterproductive.
Draw the Anti-Americans out and make them respond to us. Tyrants gonna tyrannize. And when they do, we’ll broadcast it to the world and start winning back the narrative.
This can be the grassroots strategy that works alongside the others, but this can work.
Thoughts, anyone?
3 replies on “MBTA Step 1: Peaceful protests, MLK-style.”
I like the idea of a silent protest. All the protesters are quiet and don’t respond until the end of the march when they turn their backs to the outside and face each other. A physical representation of Bill’s Turn Around.
I believe the fatal weakness in your idea is the nature of our enemies.
During the civil rights era King’s protests worked because one group of decent people were seen by a larger group of decent people to be oppressed by a group of indecent people. Because our country was being run by fundamentally good people able to be shamed into action by such a display.
That is not the sort of people we’re dealing with today. We’re dealing today with broken, evil people who aren’t shamed by cruelty, they delight in it. An ongoing parade of bloodied, beaten Trump supporters isn’t going to drive them to introspection or a re-evaluation of their worldview, it’s going to send them to Twitter where they can crow about “pwning the nazis” and use pictures of our pain to make memes. And the media coverage necessary for such a tactic to work will never happen. Any violence is always going to be framed as “well, there was very little violence and those racist Trumpsters were asking for it anyway”.
And I’m not speaking hypothetically here, we’ve seen it with our own eyes. For over four years now there has been episode after episode of the law-breaking left preying on the law-abiding right, going back before Trump’s election when he was unable to hold rallies in some cities because of the violence. If it were possible to shame them out of such behavior by turning the other cheek then it would have happened by now. There is no “winning back the narrative” when the narrative is written by your enemies, and that’s what the media surely is.
I understand the uselessness of trying to convince the left to give up a bloody useful tactic. They’re not our audience.
Our audience is the *Americans* held in psychological confinement by the *Anti-Americans*. This tactic is aimed at them. We need to red-pill as many people as possible. It won’t sway everyone, but hopefully enough to change the power dynamic.
I also see this as giving them one last opportunity to negotiate in peace. Once we’ve exhausted all peaceful methods, then we mobilize in a manner that’s a bit more…kinetic. And we’ll have all the justification in the world and clean consciences knowing we provided them every opportunity to come to the table.