A coalition of civil rights groups expects the turnout on Oct. 18 will be even bigger than the first nationwide protest held in June, which by some counts was the largest in U.S. history.
The Nazis collected sympathy by pointing to the deaths of officers at the hands of assassins. On its own, blind violence won’t always do what you want to them. You need to grind down the machines of the system they’re pushing, and you cannot give them easy excuses to legitimize further support.
To be clear, I’m not calling you a doomer for whistleblowing. I’m calling you a doomer for the “there really is just nothing we can do” sentiment. But honestly, I think you and I both can do better than giving in to nihilism.
I wonder if people in the 1930s called the Nazi whistleblowers “doomers.” Boy would they have been wrong.
The Nazis collected sympathy by pointing to the deaths of officers at the hands of assassins. On its own, blind violence won’t always do what you want to them. You need to grind down the machines of the system they’re pushing, and you cannot give them easy excuses to legitimize further support.
There is no time for that. The actions the would work in WWII are not applicable today. The only thing they fear is being the target.
To be clear, I’m not calling you a doomer for whistleblowing. I’m calling you a doomer for the “there really is just nothing we can do” sentiment. But honestly, I think you and I both can do better than giving in to nihilism.
We can move.
I think we can do better than that, too.