“Complacent” is a poor word choice:
I was speaking of a false sense of the urgency of the situation. I’m not calling for violence in the streets, nor am I against protest, or standing one’s metaphorical ground.
Those aren’t the only forms of action available to us. Being active in the ‘larger conversation’ is important, whether it’s supporting positions or candidates or policies, being a candidate, helping others get to the polls for the election, having conversations like we have here, pushing back against the bullshit - ALL of it matters: it will be taken in by whoever reads it, whether they want to or not - they’ll absorb some, reject some, but the conversation changes us, and that change is extremely important - especially now. ‘Mindshare’ is a dated term, but we’re all digging for truths we can understand, but humans all have the same stuff go on in them, it’s just, ‘how it dances’ is different for everybody.
Not letting that conversation be dominated by the wormtongues & screamers from ‘the right’ is not as simple as it was when we still had public spaces to physically gather in - it takes more creativity and imagination (and *legitimate* research) than reading the shitstream & reacting to it. It’s a different level of struggle, but it’s NOT optional: one of the ways we got here *was* by complacency - thinking that the forces against the nation were just ‘crazy people, ignorant, uninformed, behind the times’. We *could* have seen through the bullshit, but we kept extending the benefit of the doubt, ignoring the deep-rooted brainwashing that was happening right under our noses, figuring they’d all die off, unable to turn the most traditional aspects of our society against because they were dumb, crazy, morons….
Worked great, huh? Maybe, time for a different plan? Like calling them out, not letting them soak undisturbed in THEIR induced brain-rot, not permitting THEIR true-American, Christian-soldier complacence to allow the overthrow gang to pick up this kind of speed, pushing back whenever and wherever we can.
