No. Look at europe, now look back at the USA. US citizenry is among the weakest and most complacent on the planet. No national strike, and no other major action will take place unless something DRASTIC goes down.
Because of this, there’s a real danger that the frog just gets boiled, with no single outrage big enough, and then the citizenry looks back, now helpless as the time for action has been missed, and now it requires even more strength they don’t possess.
I’ve been having anxiety all month that there will be a sudden extreme event where Trump ends democracy for good. But it will probably be more gradual and less dramatic. I think I actually am kind of hoping for something sudden and dramatic to wake people up. What’s probably actually going to happen is worse: small, incremental steps to ending democracy. Either MAGA will win the midterms by quietly rigging them, or they’ll spend the next two months overturning the election results by claiming fruad
No. Look at europe, now look back at the USA. US citizenry is among the weakest and most complacent on the planet. No national strike, and no other major action will take place unless something DRASTIC goes down.
Because of this, there’s a real danger that the frog just gets boiled, with no single outrage big enough, and then the citizenry looks back, now helpless as the time for action has been missed, and now it requires even more strength they don’t possess.
whisper~whisper “Ssshhh… You’re supposed to joke that it already did look like a family get together and by the looks of it, the next one too.”
Sorry, I was confused since my family get togethers are usually more crazy.
I’ve been having anxiety all month that there will be a sudden extreme event where Trump ends democracy for good. But it will probably be more gradual and less dramatic. I think I actually am kind of hoping for something sudden and dramatic to wake people up. What’s probably actually going to happen is worse: small, incremental steps to ending democracy. Either MAGA will win the midterms by quietly rigging them, or they’ll spend the next two months overturning the election results by claiming fruad
plus maga doesn’t have to be driving it – it’s been driven to this point for roughly a half century before maga started to exist.