Resigning from position of power doesnt help anyone when you can stay there and fuck with the programme. Check out Paddy Ashdown's Nein. Shows how its done.
It's easy to say online when it's not your career and reputation on the line. While there maybe no functional external difference in:
(a) resignation and potential replacement with someone else more willing/possibly less competent
(b) not resigning and maliciously complying
there are the matters of losing self-respect and peer credibility, opportunity costs of inability to apply effort and focus on something else more worthwhile when choosing (b), and an inability to criticize leadership.
With enough resignations and people speaking out, it adds even more to the mountain of evidence as a clear signal to reticent holdout, convincible non-ideologues.
Well look at Trumps first term. Count the number of resignations. The man then goes on to win a second terms. All the resigning didnt make a dent imho.
They make it their business to replace resignees with loyalists. In terms of generating friction for the regime, it makes more sense to make your stand in office and make them fire you, but that carries a lot of personal/career costs too. Which I suspect is why people choose walking away instead.
I agree with you in general. The problem is that we're increasingly in the territory where the person resigning only disagrees with one aspect of the overall policy, rather than coming to any larger realization.
It seems like many fascism supporters are about to find out how "There is one lord of the ring and he does not share power".
It was never about any of the longstanding gripes or appeals to ideals - merely the lust for power and a siren song of telling people easy answers they want to hear. I say this as someone for whom Trump visited many things I care about in 2016 - I was the weirdo telling my aghast blue tribe friends that he had a good shot at winning. (I stated this in this direction, as opposed to the customary direction of "I agreed with Trump", because the latter is essentially undefined, as he constantly stakes out contradictory policy positions, often even in the same sentence)
(and to be clear, I of course wasn't foolish enough to vote for the guy. I don't even believe the hopium-lies of regular politicians, never mind someone who has the con artistry cranked up to 11)
Resigning from position of power doesnt help anyone when you can stay there and fuck with the programme. Check out Paddy Ashdown's Nein. Shows how its done.
It's easy to say online when it's not your career and reputation on the line. While there maybe no functional external difference in:
(a) resignation and potential replacement with someone else more willing/possibly less competent
(b) not resigning and maliciously complying
there are the matters of losing self-respect and peer credibility, opportunity costs of inability to apply effort and focus on something else more worthwhile when choosing (b), and an inability to criticize leadership.
With enough resignations and people speaking out, it adds even more to the mountain of evidence as a clear signal to reticent holdout, convincible non-ideologues.
Well look at Trumps first term. Count the number of resignations. The man then goes on to win a second terms. All the resigning didnt make a dent imho.
They make it their business to replace resignees with loyalists. In terms of generating friction for the regime, it makes more sense to make your stand in office and make them fire you, but that carries a lot of personal/career costs too. Which I suspect is why people choose walking away instead.
Preemptive compliance does nobody any good.
I agree with you in general. The problem is that we're increasingly in the territory where the person resigning only disagrees with one aspect of the overall policy, rather than coming to any larger realization.
It seems like many fascism supporters are about to find out how "There is one lord of the ring and he does not share power".
It was never about any of the longstanding gripes or appeals to ideals - merely the lust for power and a siren song of telling people easy answers they want to hear. I say this as someone for whom Trump visited many things I care about in 2016 - I was the weirdo telling my aghast blue tribe friends that he had a good shot at winning. (I stated this in this direction, as opposed to the customary direction of "I agreed with Trump", because the latter is essentially undefined, as he constantly stakes out contradictory policy positions, often even in the same sentence)
(and to be clear, I of course wasn't foolish enough to vote for the guy. I don't even believe the hopium-lies of regular politicians, never mind someone who has the con artistry cranked up to 11)
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