The fascist are hoping for protest so they can declare martial law. Give them silence and empty streets instead.

[Hotler]

Protest in the streets is good but, it can only do so much. Spending boycotts from the safety of home won't get you arrested, tear gassed, beat or shot. And the orange one won't be able to go on the news and bitch about evil Dem & Libs, BLM, etc. It's a small way to resist and not feel totally helpless. Plus the more that participate the larger the results.
If you're not spending, you're saving.
(This is not mandatory, it's just a suggestion)
Be well

Blue25
https://democraticunderground.com/10113602

[NoRethugFriends]

1. Worst idea ever

[gab13by13]

9. You beat me to it.

[Ocelot II]

2. People have to buy some stuff. Just buying less than usual won't make a bit of difference

and will mostly hurt local businesses. IMO it's a lazy, ineffective, chickenshit way of "protesting" that doesn't expose you to any risk and saves a little money in the process. If you really want to make your voice heard get your ass out on the street or at least in print and fucking do something.

[debm55]

7. I absolutely agree with you Ocelot II. Let it begin.

[Basso8vb]

3. Sounds like "obeying in advance" to me.

No thanks.

[durablend]

4. LOL "spending boycotts"

Some of you are delusional if you think the big companies are scared of that. Unless you're spending thousands of dollars a day you don't even exist on their radar.

[NutmegYankee]

5. Silence is acceptance.

Make them declare martial law and shoot innocent people. Pull the mask off and let people see the monsters for what they truly are.

[kentuck]

6. I think there is some caution warranted...

But, I do not doubt that he would like to activate the Insurrection Act and crack down on those that would protest his illegal actions.

[sop]

8. Yeah, no.

Getting really loud and angry, burning up the phone lines to elected leaders, writing letters to the editors of local papers, protesting peacefully at every opportunity, making a lot of noise and VOTING is the only way to make a difference. I refuse to go quietly.

[OneGrassRoot]

10. Hear me out...

This is about fascistic white (Christian, straight) male supremacy. Wealthy white male supremacy. Trump & Co. believe all white men except for the relatively few (in their eyes) Dems (insert slurs here) support what they're doing, even those they consider rubes because they're poor.

I thought about it and, while certainly white men have always had a presence in protests throughout the decades, most of the ones in recent memory have been led by women and POC.

I think it would actually be jarring to Trump to see mass protests of primarily white men. I'd like to see them joined by veterans, and the families of both military and LEO. But to have a showing of white men to step up like we've never seen before could shake up MAGA in general. Plus, if he does send in troops to arrest protesters, they'd be arresting their loved ones if the family idea is included.

Maybe that could be the start of some of the less cultist MAGA, the apathetic and other contingents to join us, and then the protests done in solidarity of everyone against fascism and the overt class war could happen more consistently and in earnest and carry more weight. And maybe, just maybe we could work toward that general strike that is effective in other countries.

[Hugin]

11. If what you are saying is to spend strategically and with awareness...

That’s a good plan under any circumstances. It’s an aspect of life in a finite world.

[Autumn]

12. Sit and home and do nothing? That's always worked well.

[struggle4progress]

13. They can't shoot us all down; and they can't put us all in jail

And if they stupidly try, they'll bite off way more than they can chew

[DSandra]

14. The fascists are hoping for violence you mean

However, I'm sure they wouldn't even let that stop them, i.e. the Reichstag fire.

[Coventina]

15. Just like what the Germans did, you mean? n/t

[Klarkashton]

16. Protest as in a permitted parade march where the

Organizers have to pay the cops overtime and rent toilets?
Otherwise it's considered "unlawful" in this country.

[Timeflyer]

17. i MUST protest in the streets with my sisters and brothers while still able to stand. It's not the only way

that I protest, by far. But to publicly and peacefully gather with others who are willing to express our outrage, esp. as a woman to fight retain the rights our foremothers and fathers fought to bring us--I'll risk it.

[Oneironaut]

18. He'll do it anyway, tbh.

If there isn’t a real reason he can pick to justify it, he’ll just make one up.