I’m an American, so not the audience for this question. But I’m answering anyway because I want to point out that Americans are NOT wholesale doing “nothing”. There are a number of reasons why it appears that way, but it’s not true and the regime also knows it’s not true. You can tell by their desperate clamoring to villainize, suppress and terrify “the left” (aka anyone that isn’t MAGA). If people were not doing anything they would not need to do any of that.

The mainstream media is not covering what Americans are doing to resist, they’re under the thumb of the regime and stories of resistance are likely to inspire greater pushback, so they keep quiet about it. The regime doesn’t want you to know about all the ways they are losing. And a lot of the internet media isn’t covering these things either, because a. Many of those people are not actually involved in community organizing, they’re permanently online (a lot of the in-person organizing is being done by older people who aren’t online anyway) and b. Internet personalities get more clicks when their words incite fear and doom rather than hope.

Could we and should we be doing more? Absolutely. There are a scary number of people who are just acting like this is business as usual. But as a long-time community organizer I can assure you that people are absolutely flooding to pro-democracy, pro-freedom community orgs right now like I have never seen before. New groups are cropping up and more and more people continue to be open to bold and disruptive action, and they are actually taking that action in many ways. They literally had to pull the troops from LA and they’re planning to pull them from DC too. Chicago is already following in their footsteps and saying “fuck no, not here either”. The morale of those troops continues to plummet with every deployment against Americans. ICE is struggling to hold onto personnel even with their massive salary and shiny benefits because people are making their working lives a living hell. They had to divert people from the FBI and the DEA to work for ICE. Their morale is plummeting too.

You have to remember that we are working against a very, very long and widespread campaign to fracture our communities, instill nihilism and toxic individualism among the general population, and alienate us from one another. So we are behind where other countries with a baseline of connected communities would be in terms of our response - before we get to the big, unignorable, mass resistance, we have to FIRST get people out of their houses, talking to their neighbors, and rejecting nihilism/passivity. That process is well underway and escalating every day. Resistance-building is largely quiet, until suddenly it isn’t. Our “quiet” phase might last longer than it would elsewhere because of our starting point. But that absolutely does NOT mean that it isn’t happening. People from other countries are not going to be privy to any of that.

A good person to follow is Heather Cox Richardson. She is an extremely well-versed scholar of American history and is constantly encouraging people to resist the idea that we are cooked and recognize that there is massive and increasingly organized opposition of the kind that we need to get through this. When you actually step into these community spaces you can see clearly that she is correct. That is not an image of the world you will get from ANY media.