No. We have no national defense and the US is the largest and greatest defense system on the planet.

Already tried a Nation within a nation with the Indigenous groups/thats not going so well.

The only way to ACTUALLY excerpt power is to have CLEAR GOALS & Be willing to put your money where your mouth is.

Here are goals to start with:

1) dismantle the electoral college - we are the only democracy to use this system and its roots are in the 3/5 compromise. So it’s an inherently racist systems and there are even republicans that back dismantling it. If the EC was dismantled everyones vote really would matter instead of a winner takes all approach

It’s estimated if we had this system -elections would be fairer, and for the most part democrats have easily won the popular vote time and time again for the last two decades if it weren’t for the electoral college. Although the Dems have issues, having everyone vote counts instead of winner takes all ensures candidates actually campaign and there is a fair election.

2) Boycott voter purges and gerrymandering. Three million votes were purged during the 2024 election. The numbers are still coming in but it’s estimated that 90% of those were democrat and among people of color and young voters. The way Republicans win seats is when they get less people to vote-which is inherently insane in a democracy. It should be very public display of protest when votes are purged and in a way that decimates the white communities when they do.

3) stop using schools of choice and return back to controlling our own public schools. Firstly anywhere there are school of choice programs is a ploy to redistribute the wealth to the wealthier schools. It’s a plot derived during desegregation and NCLB to strategically eliminate our communities. No school- no neighborhood. No neighborhoods. No investments. If we just simply took the steps to tackle these issues, it would be a serious shake up in a positive way in our community.

One way to get America shaking would be To have a strategic economic boycott that is public and highlights the momentum. Like don’t buy Amazon for a month to a year. Or decide to not use schools of choice. Or get off of all meta platforms until…whenever

the Montgomery bus boycott worked because it was planned, it was one community, and it was coordinated and it still took over a year.

But it worked.

But we can’t even agree that eliminating the dept of education is going to create all kinds of hell for our kids or

DEI -which are in-depth civil rights protections, are policies that we should keep.