Power is shifting upward -- and you're already feeling it.

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2. Non violence is the only way that works.

https://thejenniwren.substack.com/p/to-the-naysayers-youre-wrong-were?utm_campaign=posts-open-in-app&triedRedirect=true

The point is not serenity. The point is discipline. Discipline denies authoritarians their favorite story: only extremists oppose us. Power craves images of fire and chaos because those images justify crackdowns and scare bystanders back onto their couches.

Scholars who study nonviolent “dilemma actions” describe tactics that trap authorities in no-win choices. Ignore peaceful defiance and look weak, or attack calm people and expose cruelty. Researchers at Columbia’s International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution explain why this strategy repeatedly destabilizes repressive power in their analysis of violence versus nonviolence.