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Feeding People Is A Way To Fight Fascism
We need to emphasize how important food is to organizing
Every day, fascism is slowly creeping in. Departments of the government are being purged and replaced with die-hard loyalists. Genocidal rhetoric (and policy) is being advanced that seeks to exterminate minorities such as transgender people (see Surprisingly, This Is What a Trans Genocide Looks Like). It's a scary time to be alive.
It might be challenging to think of what to do about all this, especially since so many well-worn strategies have already failed to fight the rise of fascism in the United States. As I have argued in the past:
“Trump has once again ascended to power. All that stands in his administration’s way is an ineffectual Democratic Party, a nonprofit scene beholden primarily to wealthy donors, leftist influencers building up their brands, grassroots groups holding on by the skin of their teeth, and, god willing, Donald Trump’s own incompetence. It’s safe to say that this strategy of strengthening liberal institutionalism has failed us in stopping the rise of right-wing authoritarianism.”
I have instead advocated for a community-based approach (see You Can Stop the Collapse of Democracy by Finding Your People) that involves focusing on making in-person connections. The last piece I…
