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Their Shock Doctrine approach (thank you Naomi Klein) has been incredibly successful. Reading about history in my youth, I now understand why evil prevailed then as it is now. I was looking back at times of immense tyranny and thinking "why didn't everyone just rise up against them!?" Some are fully onboard, others partially, but many are detached, struggling to survive. The rest of us do what we can, when we can, but disjointed and unorganized.
It's a whole lot of "please will somebody DO something!", but the modern Democrats are not an opposition party, ever. The news media is complicit as well. There are a handful of judges and attorneys who are doing their damndest, but this is no longer a country of laws (for the rich and powerful).
The country is geographically massive and your average citizen is both poor and uneducated, both politically and otherwise, by Western standards. Now that large swaths of worker's livelihoods are being devastated they may have more time on their hands.
I won't hold my breath for "Occupy Washington", but when the next movement comes it will be met with intense and violent opposition. Hopefully a silver lining may be a wake up call, far too late.
I shudder to think of what comes next as it has been festering and fomenting within this country my entire lifetime. The sophisticated propaganda machine and socioeconomic warfare has kept our citizens dumb, divided, and despondent, I pray something beneficial rises from the ashes.
There is no single answer to your question. My aim was to provide a contemporaneous snapshot of what I am experiencing. As I have been observing our descent into flagrant fascism, and telling anyone who would listen, for the better part of a century. And I hate it with every fiber of my being.
I'm so fucking tired of everyone blaming the Democrats.
Trump has a 46% approval rating. ** 46% of the American people support explicitly this. **
They don't have the right to perform a coup without the consent of the people. And you, right now, are saying you don't consent to their rule because they haven't taken it by force. (What force?)
Are you aware of how unpopular any impeachment typically is? If his approval rating is 46%, impeachment won't happen.
We're going to have to wait for things to get bad enough that we all start to actually suffer in our lives, outside of just seeing it coming by reading the news.
Seeing the train isn't enough. We have to wait for it to hit us.
The US political system is thoroughly broken but it's not changed much leading up to the Trump era, it's really the news media that made Trump happen right now.
It started in the 80s with cable news and continues today with toxic podcasts and social media. People are like your annoying ex-girlfriend - they don't want to be told the truth, they just want to be validated. Billionaires and con artists (and billionaire con artists) have figured out how to use newer forms of media to exploit that tendency and I think it's still getting worse. Eventually like all predators they'll overconsume their prey but there's a lot of suckers in the world for them to run through first.
The Democrats literally kept shifting right until they finally were endorsed by war criminals. Just because they were socially left didn't make them in any other sense actually left. And the GOP aren't socially right, (No problem with Thiel) they just use wedge issues, in conjunction with the Democrats, while both parties moved so far economically right, they voted to allow themselves criminal activities withheld from Joe Average, like insider trading. Martha Stewart was extremely wealthy when she was convicted of that, but she wasn't a politician, and yes, women are still an underclass. And I don't think that really matters, it's just another dumb wedge to keep the plebs infighting.
I wholly agree none of us want the truth, but seek validation and continue to wallow in our victim mentality. There are exceptions, but few and far between.