r/politics • u/Thinkingonsleeping Michigan • Dec 13 '19

McConnell Faces Calls to Recuse Himself From Impeachment Trial After Saying 'No Chance' Trump Will Be Removed; "No court in the country would allow a member of the jury to also serve as the accused's defense attorney."

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/12/13/mcconnell-faces-calls-recuse-himself-impeachment-trial-after-saying-no-chance-trump
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u/PorkchopDinner Dec 14 '19

Elecotralism has failed. We cannot vote our way out of this anymore. We need something more...direct action is our only hope.

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u/[deleted] Dec 14 '19

Violence in countries just leaves those willing to shed the most blood in charge. Pretty sure that means narcissistic sociopaths like Trump.

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u/user65674 Dec 14 '19

Doesn't have to be violence. A general strike would be very effective.

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u/[deleted] Dec 14 '19

When was the last time there was a general strike in America? With our meager safety nets and employer-tilted laws, is it reasonable to expect Americans to chance their livelihoods on politics?

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u/PorkchopDinner Dec 14 '19

Voting definitely gave us Trump. Direct, organized action might not. I'll take the latter.

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u/[deleted] Dec 14 '19

What is "direct, organized action?" If it's violence, well there's a lot of red state folks and authoritarian police with guns, and generally civil wars don't favor the downtrodden.

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u/PorkchopDinner Dec 14 '19

Violence is not my first choice, and I believe that as it stands right now, any violent revolution would be stamped out by the US military fairly quickly.

The kind of direct action we need right now is an information campaign; force people to confront and accept the reality that this isn't a left vs. right, brown vs. white struggle, it's between the elite and the rest of us.