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Get involved in Mutual Aid groups!!
No one is coming to save any of us, the only people who have our back is each other. We have to drop this American individuality bullshit and focus on growing communities that function outside the capitalist/US government paradigm because those institutions are not going to save us: they plan to grind us into paste to make money.
We truly are at the end game, the capitlists don't see our middle class as valuable internationally anymore, so they want to cut the strings and make us compete with people who get paid dollars a day to solder parts together in a factory. Bezos pushes his employees so hard because he's part of this mindset, too. They expect our lives to revolve around making them money until the planet is burnt to a cinder.
Figure out what your useful skills are, and add them to the pile. A lot of us here are tech nerds, and we can build out sneakernets and large-scale non-internet-connected-LANs in neighborhoods. Others can offer grow food, others can offer medical care, and so on.
We have to accept that the systems as they exist are failing us, and we can only count on ourselves and each other.
We don't have to do it alone.
I'm interested in supporting mutual aid. Any good reference sources?
https://www.mutualaidhub.org/
It's an okay place to start, but it really starts by building community locally. If you don't have enough decent people locally to work with to build a mutual aid group, then... that's a tougher situation. When you're stuck in largely Republican areas, it can be quite difficult to find others who want to build such groups, but not impossible.
As a Washington state resident, it seems like sane people are well represented here, by our voting numbers. So if you can get out here, not the worst place to ride out this storm.
More people in Washington should be willing to open their doors for people who need to get away, honestly. I'm really trying to push my extended family to get more active, because there's going to be a lot of people who need help, a lot.
Both The Party for Socialism and Liberation and Freedom Road Socialist Organization do work with Mutual Aid. If you're more interested in feeding the needy specifically, Food Not Bombs does great work.