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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez urged countering the Trump administration’s policies by resisting at every turn, arguing that its incompetence makes it vulnerable.

Her remarks followed chaos caused by a rescinded executive order that temporarily shut down Medicaid portals nationwide.

She encouraged activists to take offline action, citing ongoing mobilization efforts.

Her strategy focuses on making governance difficult for Trump, calling his administration “dangerous and cruel” but also “shockingly dim.”

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[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 14 points 36 minutes ago (2 children)

"Tyranny is eroded by a sea of small acts. Everything matters."

A lot of Lemmy users really need to understand this. Far too often I see people deride want action that doesn't immediately fix all problems in the world as worthless or meaningless, simply because they lack the imagination needed to see how small actions can add up to big changes.

[–] hark@lemmy.world 1 points 1 minute ago

That's true, but it can also be used in reverse as a pacifying mechanism. For example, contributing to making the US the most incarcerated population in the world with ridiculously strict "tough on crime" legislation and then pardoning a small fraction of prisoners. Another example is forcing student loan debt to stick around through bankruptcy, but then forgiving a tiny fraction of loans. It's a move to pretend change is in motion, but it's so small and so slow that it's never going to actually solve the problem. This is especially bad when the other party makes such huge moves in the negative direction while we're supposed to be content with tiny steps toward "progress".

[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 1 points 7 minutes ago

This Lemmy user has the right idea.

[–] RangerJosey@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 minutes ago

It isn't chump and his taintsuckers you gotta worry about.

It's the army of Federalist Society lawyers and policy experts around him. They've spent decades figuring out the removed in the armor of our governmental system. Figuring out how to dismantle it piece by piece.

[–] skhayfa@lemmy.world 12 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

That would be a great plan if the Dems were not spineless at best and complicit at worse

[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 1 points 3 minutes ago

People see comments like this and get discouraged to vote or do anything meaningful. Life is choosing the lesser of two evils. By not choosing you have chosen the greater evil thus making you complicit.

[–] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Look at the "secret service detail" he picked.

He picked loyalty over skill, actually DEI

Just a few inches to the right

Few More Inches

[–] joyjoy@lemm.ee 20 points 3 hours ago

He got rid of DEI to make more room for cronyism.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 201 points 7 hours ago (40 children)

Any kind of on the ground movement or mobilization needs political support in the halls of power. It's what made the resistance demonstrated against Trump the first term possible, and the dynamic goes both ways. On the ground resistance gives political actors the space to be resilient. Resilient politicians give in the ground movement space to work.

Basically all other Democrats other than Bernie and AOC shrivelling up and hiding in their shells will have a chilling effect on our ability to organize on the ground.

[–] GoofSchmoofer@lemmy.world 24 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

I've been bitching about the lack of leadership from the Democrats for a while now - I'm glad to see that others are seeing it too.

[–] harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 minutes ago

They need to dump Wasserman-Schulz. She's a big part of the reason we're in this mess.

[–] mineralfellow@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

It's all been downhill since JFK...

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 19 minutes ago

LBJ at least pushed for laws, he helped convince white senators to vote for the Civil Rights Act. I think if we had a second LBJ, we'd have something done.

...I'd rather not have a new VIetnam war if that was the case, however.

[–] DigitalNirvana@lemm.ee 29 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Heinrich from NM has made it clear that he will pushback. Let’s see what that looks like. I suggest folks that can contact your reps, now and frequently.

[–] 5in1k@lemm.ee 6 points 3 hours ago

Every day I have sent mine a note from the contact form on their pages. Angrily

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[–] NineMileTower@lemmy.world 80 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

If all Dems had her tenacity and honest interest in helping the middle class, we wouldn't be where we are.

[–] DeathsEmbrace@lemm.ee 14 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

~~Dems~~ Politicians FTFY sorry sometimes we forget because republicans/right are so pro rich class.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 7 points 3 hours ago

It's not that people don't mention Republicans in statements like that because they're letting them off the hook; it's that they don't bother mentioning them because they're a lost cause.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 46 points 7 hours ago

She encouraged activists to take offline action

Based

[–] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 44 points 7 hours ago

She is possibly our best hope.

[–] ohlaph@lemmy.world 22 points 7 hours ago

shockingly dim

When you hire yes men, you get some pretty dumb people.

[–] HalfSalesman@lemm.ee 33 points 8 hours ago (6 children)
[–] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Have the balls to just say you want her to fail.

People help her and do it together, or it doesn't work. Band together against nazis.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 61 points 7 hours ago (14 children)

Her point is that everyone has to pitch in and do their little bit to make things harder for this administration. This resistance has to be built from the bottom up.

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