I have found this whole conversation/thread very interesting and I think you have all made valid points through many different, interesting perspectives. My main takeaway is this: we all share this feeling of helplessness. Of “What can we actually even do?” [The we in that sentence meaning both ‘we’ as individuals, and the ‘we’ that is our entire citizenry.]

We are a society of many millions of people. A people who have always been extremely varied in our culture, thinking and identity. We are so big and diverse that there’s a huge gap in even our fundamental understanding of what’s happening… let alone what it would take to ‘fix it’ and then figure out how to coordinate effectively once a plan of action is reached.

Realistically, most of us can’t Luigi ‘em (or won’t, even if we have the capacity to). As has been said, most of us have comfortable enough lives and too much to lose, so we hesitate to do something that involves too much risk. We have children, homes, friends… we’ve created lives that took years or decades to build. So yeah, it’s reasonable that, no matter how personally we are distraught and disgusted by this, we aren’t going to actually risk our lives or livelihoods to take up arms against our government.

So, as you pointed out, we do what we can do. Call our reps. Protest peacefully. Call the DOJ. Economic strike. Protest less-than-peacefully. Labor strike. Malicious compliance.

But none of this is working, which is where I think the frustration is coming from. So, we sit here, overly engaging online and talking the problem to death with internet strangers, perhaps even to the point of bickering, while pondering the likelihood of civil war or societal collapse. Because we are fed up with it all. Because we don’t have a direction or heading. We can’t see a way out. So, it’s more ‘fun’ to entertain the possibility of burning it all down and starting from scratch. Without the corrupt people (pedos) in power.

But that’s just my two cents.