What else can I do?
Knock on doors. Stuff envelopes. Call phones. Donate if it's feasible for you. Run for something local if you've got the resources. Just talk to people, if that's all you have time for. Be (nonviolently) belligerent when people are being bigoted assholes, if that's a risk you're willing to take.
Between violence and nothing there's a whole national apparatus to rebuild. It's surprisingly fun, too.
In other words: get out the vote. The essence of the democratic process. That's the only moral and ethical way to approach this. The whole "we need to burn these fuckers out" is exactly the same anti-democratic ideal the worst elements of the Right get attacked for.....just with a heavy dose of moral outrage from the Left.
If the current events and near-term stakes aren't enough to provoke civil disobedience, then nothing short of danger literally at your own doorstep will be enough.
Hard to be civilly disobedient on the end of the Nuclear Non-Profileration Treaty with Russia. Or removing ourselves from the Climate Accords. Unless you just plan to sit in the street as an act of protest and block traffic.
So yeah. Danger at my doorstep would be a motivating factor. Being told to do something or believe something or being required to support something I won't. Then I can be civilly disobedient. Maybe it will be too late by that point? But again, what are we talking about here. Shooting up some political offices? Starting fist fights at rallies? The Left's anger is genuine but unfocused, just like the Right's anger was during Obama. Only they actually started organizing in response to it, eventually, because they realized violently changing the political situation wasn't going to work. So they worked within the process, got their base motivated and made the change they want to see. I wholeheartedly endorse the Left doing the same thing. It's way, way more productive than making angry internet posts and confirming the biases of the people you're opposed to. "Liberals will violently try to overthrow the government!" "We need to drag these racist fascists fucks out in to the street by their hair and make an example of them, so we can take back our country!"
Basically if you're legitimately advocating violence, you've already lost the game. We've all already lost the game, at that point. The savvier, more patient elements of the far Right have realized their best strategy is to say something just offensive enough, and watch people on the Left dig their own hole and jump in it.
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