I feel like its only a matter of time before me and everyone I love is violently murdered by a vigilante for not having a US flag bumper sticker or something.

But actually if anything keeps me up at night its not necessarily that violence seems to be on the horizon, but that so many people are not willing to discuss it.

I am in a class that is solutions oriented and looks at things people are doing around the world to relieve precarity and address climate change. Many of these things are very relevant for revolutionaries. But there is no discussion that if all of us students went on to increase the prevalence of these solutions that we can only expect violence to come as either a reaction to success or a result of our actions (acadimia breeds colonizers too). In fact non violence is fetishized and treated like a holy dogma instead of a tactic. One of my classmates recently made a comment implying that non violence must be ubiquitous. Somehow its not easy to recognize the daily violence that is litterally everywhere all the time???

If a traditional fascism takes hold in the US the “good liberals” are going to get blindsided in ways they cant imagine. The other possibility (and this is my prediction because Trump supporters are not as scarey as the nazis in terms of establishing a fascist dictatorship goes) is that libs will just support a new vigor for colonialism and send the cops to crush any resistance.