I was having a conversation just now (see here) about this idea of taking matters into our own hands and how frankly, the temperature in our country is simply not hot enough yet to expect hard working, freedom loving Americans with nice paying jobs, mortgages, and families to support to take to the streets the way the Brazilians have and it got me to thinking...what if there are other ways, besides voting and sounding the warning bell on social media, that we could "take to the streets" so to speak, and "take matters into our own hands?"
Ghandi understood that to force change you have to force the system's hand, by putting strain on the system. Truckers learned they could disrupt the system by shutting down the roads. Not sure we could do that here but where is our locus of power? Where do we hold the reigns of power that we could twist to our liking?
Any takers?
I had one idea. Might be a stupid one, but it was the first idea that popped into my head. Maybe it's the wrong idea but maybe something like it would do the trick.
Well...we all have mortgages, right?
What if we set a date and got enough people on board before that date to refuse to pay their mortgages? A mortgage strike of sorts? What if we all committed to buying a certain amount of gold and/or silver with our credit cards with the publicly stated intention of not paying the cards back? They threaten us with ruining our credit...but if enough people said to the system "fuck it, I don't need your credit. I'm buying gold and silver, not paying back my loans, and getting rich off the crash we cause?"
Gold will destroy the Fed, right?
Could this be a way to push that prophecy into reality?
Push the money lenders to the brink?
Just spitballing here, but because we all know we aren't going to be taking to the streets like the Brazilians anytime, and we all know the system is on the brink of hyperinflation anyway, why not save the money you're paying to your mortgage to buy gold and silver and let the old system shrivel and die?
Happy to have you shoot holes in the idea. Just seeing if we can start some critical thinking on this topic.
What are non-violent ways we can protest?
I love that you are thinking and writing your thoughts, this is good , at least you are trying to think of something that we can do . I don’t think many would want to not pay their mortgage, I personally have pulled my house out of forclourse many years back , I nearly lost it. Lost my biz. , single mom , special needs child etc . I personally am to concerned about losing my home , therefore I pay my mortgage a few days early every month, buying gold and silver is always a good idea , but again putting it on a credit card I’m not sure people would want to do either not trying to shoot holes in what you said or doom your post I’m just commenting what’s more important is at least you’re trying to come up with some kind of idea to save this nation
This is what I mean. In order to crack a system, you have to be willing to risk what you have, but you’re only going to be willing to do that if you know enough other people are going to be willing to do it too. You see, if a critical mass of people commit to doing it, they can wreck all our credit but their losses would be so great it would force the issue. It would make the problem too large. You alone not paying your mortgage is nothing. It’s easy to handle. It’a easy to foreclose and evict you. If millions of us did it, and evoked squatters rights and refused to leave our homes and backed up our neighbors too, they’d be powerless.
I’m aware that people wouldn’t want to do it. Black people didn’t want to walk rather than take the bus. Indians didn’t want to walk to the ocean to get their own salt. It’s inconvenient and scary but this is how India freed themselves from British rule. If we don’t want to pick up arms and start shooting then we need to find other non-violent ways of fighting back. We need an action, a start date, and a critical mass of volunteers in order for it to matter.
But maybe we’re not there yet.
No. Clog up every politicians phone lines. Dont let them rest until the elections are secured and not stolen. Call, email, fill up their inboxes with disgruntled citizens.
Go to their town hall meetings and fill up the public speaking roster with election fraud.
When it becomes the only talking point it will stop being ignored.
This is how I changed cannabis laws in my very deep southern state. I won. Just me and a handful of other parents. We won.
The best way to fight back against their agenda is to stop playing by the rules they've drawn up. Withdraw your money from their crooked system. Invest only in companies that share our values. Stop paying for media companies that lie to us. Stop going out to eat at chain restaurants. Shop with local retailers as much as you can. Pay in cash for things to save your local retailers credit card fees. We should do as much as possible to starve the system.
We've already hurt them. Facebook laying off employees, Amazon laying off employees. Netflix changed their policies due to protests. Our efforts are having an effect, but we need to keep going forward, waking up more people, and encouraging them to join in the fight. It takes a little extra effort, but it will all be worth it. They were counting on a bunch of distracted, ignorant consumers that they would easily herd into the New World Order. They don't know what to do with us, and our numbers are growing daily.
I've been thinking about this as well. What if we all started buying Gold Bucks? "Gold shall destroy the FED"
The Gold Bucks actually have GOLD in them and you can buy them with your paper dollars.
I've already grabbed some WY Gold Bucks and there are some places taking them as payment. What if we created so much interest in these Gold Bucks that more an more stores started accepting them? What if it got to the point where real patriots were only buying from real patriot businesses that accept the Gold Bucks?
If we all invested enough an just started using them anywhere we could, perhaps we could get more normies into them as well? I believe we could override the Feds fiat currency.
The best and really only necessary thing to do now (because it hasn't been done yet) is to use Constitutional means to bring justice. The U.S. Constitution is the Supreme Law of our land. There are constitutional means available to fix things, but most Americans are clueless about the constitution and don't even know the rights that they have guaranteed by that document.
ALL elected officials take an oath to uphold the US Constitution. If any of your state politicians have broken that oath and done something unconstitutional, they can be removed from office. They SHOULD have the integrity to step down on their own, but here's betting they don't have that integrity. So what you as a citizen can do is use Constitutional means to have them removed from office. Contact your local sheriff (also an elected position and also under oath to the constitution) and ask him how to proceed. Good luck and keep us informed.
Good luck and keep us informed? LOL bro. That's YOUR idea. How about YOU try it keep US informed?