To the degree public opinion can slow them down or stop them, I’m all for it. To your implied point, pushing back on them makes it that much harder for them to move their agenda along.
This is related to a discussion I was having with someone about the NFL’s decision to remove the “stop racism” phrase from their end zones. His thing was, what’s the point of it because it’s not as though racists are going to change their minds by seeing a trite phrase on a sports telecast.
My rebuttal was that the phrase isn’t there to change racists’ minds—those people are, as Ernie Harwell might intone, loooong gone. The phrase is there to remind the rest of us, the rest of society, that ending racism is a worthy goal we should never let slip out of mind, and as long as this is an idea that’s explicitly in the public thinking, that makes it that much harder for the racists to act out in a way that embarrasses us all as a society.
And, flip side, remove the phrase, remove the idea from top-of-mind discourse, and that makes it so much easier for the racists to act out, to shape public thinking with their retrograde ideas, and to eventually take over.
Same thing applies to pushing back on the regime. The more we push back, the harder it is for them to get us all where they want us to be. It’s a worthy crusade on our part. I acknowledge I occasionally descend into a doom spiral here on this forum, and I strongly suspect it makes you roll your eyes. But that doesn’t mean I’m going to stop pushing back and simply roll over and give up, even if I’m already dead. After all, if someone’s already dead, they have even less to lose, right?
