With you up until bringing the far left into this. What does universal healthcare, trans rights or taxing billionaires have to do with the surveillance state, aside from dismantling it?
"gloves off" is supporting the daily "music festival" (what we have to call the protests to avoid censorship on social media) in LA and coordinating other cities to join the festivities. It is making a list of corrupt judges who's verdicts will be ignored. It is claiming that gerrymandered politicians will similarly be ignored. It is strategy that depends on the one thing the GOP doesn't have: broad public support.
If Newsom is our best hope then we are fucked. The guy thinks if the throws enough minorities under the bus the rest of the country will forget he is a Democrat from California.
The more overworked people are the more willing they are to take intellectual shortcuts and not think independently. One of those shortcuts is to mistake a contrarian opinion as independent thought. Throw in a contrarian leader into an economy where people are overworked and this is the result.
Judging from the YouTube comments they are hitting their mark. Lots of people mistaking being contrarian for being independent though, like in the case of COVID vaccines and makes wearing.
Good for you staying alive, but why does your opinion matter on whether I get my kids vaccinated?