Hi TYT community,
This is my first post, though I’ve been a member since 2016ish. Cenk said something on last night’s show that made me finally feel comfortable enough to bring this up, “We might need left-wing militias.” This is something I’ve been hoping to hear from TYT, because I’m convinced, and have been for a while, that we’ve passed the point of peaceful, non-violent resistance. The fascists are not coming, they’ve been here for years, and now they’re one election from completely taking over. They’re being elected at every level of government, and we have little to no time to stop them. We have to prepare for armed defense.
I was born and raised in the state of Louisiana, so as a pretty far left leaning person, I’ve always sat on the fence about gun rights. One side of me can agree that the mass shootings are a direct result of lax gun laws, and the other part of me sees that I’m a leftist in a hostile region. What if the day came where a dictator took office and they started jailing and disappearing the opposition? That day is here, and I have unequivocally decided that guns don’t make me a bad person or some right-wing nut-job. If the fascists get to have guns, I want one too.
Finally, I’m actually not sure what I’m trying to accomplish here except that I’m freaked out, y’all. I’ve observed the political environment closely since about 2006, and I predicted this day. Who is going to stop them? We know the dems won’t. We only have ourselves, and it’s time to dscuss organizing armed defense groups, and most importantly the training needed to be effective. Ojeda, where you at on this?