Thread by @docrussjackson

“The Maga mob is not a majority of the American population by any stretch of the imagination, but the fascist mob don’t have to be the majority to set in motion the kinds of policies that crush democracy.”
- Frances Fox Piven.

#NeverAgain
#NeverForget

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“As thinking people, we don’t pay enough attention to the human lust for cruelty. We're at a point in politics where those aspects of our nature are being brought to the fore; Trump has been doing that for a very long time, & we have to stop it or else it will continue to grow.”

“I don’t think any large-scale progress has ever been made in the US without the kind of trouble & disruption that a movement can cause by encouraging large numbers of people to refuse to cooperate. But movements need the protection of electoral allies- legislative chaperoning.”

“The action on the climate crisis has to defeat the fossil fuel industry which in turn is closely connected to many politicians. You have got to break that, and the only way I think in American history that kind of power has been overcome is by just shutting things down.”

“I think the only way to live is to live in politics. To me, it’s an almost life-transforming experience – to be part of the local struggle. Even a dangerous struggle. You make friends that never go away. You see people in their nobility, & you find your own nobility as well.”