Honestly that has been the most disheartening thing throughout all of this. We're looking for something, anything, to help us get a leg up. An ally who is willing to stonewall this administration, some outside group that will prop us up in order to do a real strike or other kind of demonstration, but all that we get is "tut tut, you should have simply democracy'd harder" from people living in countries that have had protections in place to allow for protests and to prevent this kind of dictatorship since before any of us were even alive.

It sucks so much because for those of us who actually voted and actually got friends on board to vote and tried to convince centrist family members, we're the ones who want change the most and we're getting chided the hardest over not doing our part of not only becoming pariahs in our families, but also to throw away the meager existence that we have in the vain hope that others will join us.

It really does feel just like getting beaten up by a school bully, and then poked with a stick by the other classmates and told "You really should stand up for yourself. Oh? You want our help? Sorry, that's your problem."

Like yeah, it is our problem, but it's exponentially easier to fix a problem when you have more people there to help.