Honestly I don’t know what’s going on in the USA. You’re so proud of your “democracy and freedom” yet one of your 2 political parties is able to effectively dismantle the entire thing in less than a decade. You’re now one election away from being a christofascist state.
…and yet you’re all just going to work tomorrow. You’re all doing pretty much nothing except “make sure you vote in 2024.” So I guess every 4 years you’re going to be one election away from a literal Nazi takeover?
I don’t know. Riot or something. I have no idea how you’re all coping so hard.
Trust me. We’re totally not proud of our democracy and freedom. I grew up in the early 80s while what was left was being undermined by Reagan and Falwell’s Moral Majority.
As a credulous kid who believed the American Exceptionalism ideology, I grew up very disappointed. And in the aughts when George W. Bush started going severely autocratic, post PATRIOT Act realized then this was the direction we were going. Now I’m outraged that America is just a slave state with extra steps.
Trump’s 2015-2016 takeover of the Republican party was inevitable, and if Trump dies or becomes untenable as a political leader, it will only be a matter of time until the next #MussoliniFan seizes the party by being obnoxious in a pool of Aynn Rand idealogues.
We might be able to hold back the neutering of (our meager) democratic features in order to keep it from becoming a one party state even for a decade or three, on the grounds the US is big and complex and can be hacked the way dinosaur clones on Isla Nublar bred, migrated and survived a lysine addiction. Heck we may even engage in some sabotage.
But enough of us know where this is heading that it could be a difficult fight, while the knives are out in Republican-only spaces.
At the same time, yes, Christian Nationalist militants might start a civil war.
Anyway, tickets to ride this (proverbial) train were bought in the aughts. And the plutocrats who paid for it all have commissioned the railway in the 1960s after interracial marriage and the end of segregation. So you’re only seeing the last bit of the story. Check out our prisons and detention centers, if you want a taste of, well, you know.