Today's Post:
Facing #Fascism: #Crisis, #Resistance, & Opportunity

"Organize: Now is the time both to #resist and to lay the framework for what you would need to do if you were to forced to break the rules. Build your networks now."

https://www.revoluciana.net/facing-fascism-crisis-resistance-opportunity/

"Each #crisis has its own arc. There is a loosely organized pattern laying within a chaotic framework. It's delicate, but there are predictable qualities.

Recognizing a pattern where others see chaos creates opportunity."

"Eventually the chaos will become more structured, and a new ordering of everything will begin to take shape. This moment of chaos won't last long, but it's still within your grasp… if you act quickly."

"[#NaomiKlein's #ShockDoctrine] as the concept applies here, the idea is that those in #authority, regardless of political affiliation, exploit times of #crisis to take on increased powers and authority while citizens are distracted and overwhelmed. They often do this under the guise of the need for emergency powers. These powers are rarely, if ever, rescinded."

"If you're wondering why the term emergency powers might evoke a certain feeling as you read it or hear it uttered, let me extrapolate. Since #Project2025 and the current regime have explicitly been using a #Nazi playbook, I will draw your attention to the Enabling Act of 1933, the "Law to Remedy the Distress of People and Reich." These emergency powers are what enabled Hitler to secure #authoritarian power."

"If your history is rusty and this narrative is still too much, remember that in #StarWars, #Palpatine was a senator before being deemed Supreme Chancellor and grated powers under the Emergency Powers Act, and eventually renamed as Emperor. This was meant to be a temporary issuance of powers that he promised to relinquish, Instead, he enacted #terror, #genocide and perpetual #oppression. George Lucas was not being subtle when he created this reference."

"But in the cases of #Hitler or #Palpatine or #Trump, remember, they haven't just exploited #crisis as a reaction. They have manufactured the same crisis under which they have worked to take #authority. The crisis is intentional."

"He will continue to manufacture #crisis until he has achieved his goals. And even after achieving his goals, if he is allowed to achieve them, he will continue to manufacture crisis, because this is how #authority is maintained in the face of discontent and #opposition from within."

"It took 53 days for #Hitler to completely dismantle the #democracy of the #Weimar Republic. #Trump knows this number and so do all the #fascists and #Nazis who surround him and support him. Do you ever wonder if maybe he wants to beat that number?"

"#Resist

I firmly believe that *the most #revolutionary act is the refusal to be #complicit*.

Some people say, do not obey in advance, which is right and true, but it's a baby step to what everyone needs to be prepared to do which is this: #DoNotObey.

*Do not obey. At all.*"

"There has been no act granting him emergency powers or any other mandate or ability to take these powers. Yes, they essentially control all three branches of government, but do not make it easy for them. Make every inch have its cost."

"If and when he does gain that level of #authority, still do not obey simply because it is law. "I was just following orders," was not a justifiable excuse at the trials at Nuremberg and it will never be an excuse, ever."

"Remember, if you make it through this, and I dearly hope you do, remember that you will always be looking back on what happened during this time. Can you live with yourself for being #complicit in the harm and suffering that they have already begun to inflict, and will continue to inflict? At what price can someone purchase your dignity and sense of character?

Will you be satisfied with your legacy?"

"The time to #resist is now. The time to resist is always, but it is especially now. If enough resist, the #fascist onslaught can be stopped. If nothing else, you must refuse to be complicit.

If it can't be stopped, it can be slowed. Slowing the onslaught provides time and opportunity.

"At this stage of confusion and uncertainty, in the midst of chaos, because they have yet to fully take #authority, their abilities to silence, intimidate, and enforce increasingly #oppressive actions against you are limited. Exercise the rights you currently have before they are taken from you."

"the longer you stand in confusion and anguish, the less opportunity you have to take whatever #action you need or to establish a plan of action. Your #oppressors are taking action. They are not waiting."