I see you.
It’s fucking horrific to live through. The opposing party has no real power beyond a vote, of which they’re outnumbered by retarded egomaniacs. The courts are a fucking joke just like the rest of our “checks and balance” system. Algorithmic media is actual cancer that pushes rage, ignorance, and the agenda. “News” and cable like media either push the narrative of the regime or just “tsk tsk”’s the shit going on. And the fucking good people on the street are fighting with a hand behind their back because if they cast a singe real stone, like say, a bullet, it opens the flood gates of martial law. Of which, with our current moral, we would be properly fucked into submission like Trump so loves to do.
We’re in check until a couple of potential turning points. Midterms could prove interesting which would add stopping power. There’s already dissent in the Republican Party, of which I hold little hope because they’re all retarded egomaniacs, but that makes the dissent even more of a point. If Trump actually does start a war to post-pone elections, instating his third term, I think hell would be raised within his own support system. And of course, he could just fucking die already and I’m fairly confident his cult would rapidly deteriorate.
All to say, you’re right. America is being raped by its president. But I hold hope that is not unfounded that this will not go unpunished. Even if it does take years…
Protests are not going to be the engine that changes these things. That requires the cunt in office to give a damn about the people he’s oppressing. That said, I don’t think they’re worthless. They’re the engine that is overtly saying and doing what others are feeling. To me, it’s inspiring. Not in a “I wanna be just like them yelling in the streets 😍”, but it’s motivational to see people going through so much effort just to spite what’s going on.
That in turn inspires the lawyers donating their time and talents to build solid cases against agents and the regime. There ARE armed militias in the street that ARE lowering the presence of feds, but not in the states that don’t allow open carry (which kills me living in Minnesota). Communities are effectively coordinating via channels the government can’t view to keep families safe moving from point A to B and move food and goods to those families, citizen or not.
Also keep in mind that in order to effectively resist against a military powerhouse that also has access to an ungodly amount of corporate databases to unjustly track and monitor people’s activity, the only EFFECTIVE option of resistance is clandestine operations using encrypted, decentralized services. So you and I ain’t seeing the whole host of resistance. Which IS a good thing.
And let’s keep in mind that we’re on the Fediverse for a reason. Even if methods of resistance are visible, social media algorithms aren’t showing it. Cable news isn’t covering it. There are a handful of actually decent investigative journalists and even then, sensationalism is king, their story will get swept away.
So just because you don’t SEE it doesn’t mean it ain’t happening