No Kings Protests Failed To End Fascism on Saturday. Curious.

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Protesting alongside mom is not cool. It never has been, it never will be. Mom, you see, is uncool. She is a font of uncoolness, in fact. It emanates from her pores. But mom and her friends and their friends and coworkers and church and mosque and synagogue acquaintances and maybe some folks they met during co-rec softball are tired and furious and a little scared of the fascists running the U.S. government today and they need others to see their disdain and fortitude and yes, their hope that Better Things Are Possible , that the country’s content-obsessed fascist regime is wildly unpopular and has a soft underbelly that can be poked and prodded by those ready to move on from a political era defined by a movement that hates everything that is human. Become a Bad Faith Times supporter today and get access to the growing BFT discord community. BFT is a reader-supported publication. That the largest single-day protest in the history of the United States was not a hyper-disciplined left-wing organizing machine making specific policy demands of a government that has eroded basic freedoms doesn’t really matter. That the anti-constitutional government remains in place today is no surprise. This isn’t Europe. We don’t have snap elections. We don’t have any of the good shit that comes with a parliamentary system. We have two goddamn parties captured by capital to varying extents and elections every couple years. That’s what we have right now. That’s what we have to work with. Read more at BadFaithTimes.com .