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First they came for the illegal immigrants and I did not speak out because I was a legal citizen.
Then they came for the LGBTQ members and I did not speak out because I am straight.
Then they came for the non-whites and I did not speak out because I am white.
Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak for me.
Irrelevant. The people who tried to stop it already know how Hitler came to power, and the ones who should ask how it happened — the ones you should address your post to — either don’t care or actively want another Hitler.
But hey, at least you slammed the people who tried their hardest, rather than actually address conservatives themselves, which would have required you actually confronting them. Glad you feel better, though.
We need a solution to this, because honestly the US just lost its democracy.
It's 1933.
Any ideas on ways out of this?
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The solution is to have ranked voting and/or proportional representation.
Not a 2 party system where neither candidate is the peoples choice.
Organize. Use direct action to sabotage the conservative agenda. General strikes. Protests. Spicy protests.
You all need help lol
I would be more concerned if he were less stupid. Going by his last presidency he'll spend half his time golfing and the rest driving through ineffective "red meat" policies to get attention from his base. Ultimately he's just a pathetic man who craves attention.
What concerns me more is that his destruction of political norms means that someone who is similarly evil - but actually capable - might be able to use him as a template to take power in the future and make America into a dictatorship. Someone like Xi Jinping as opposed to an aging B-list celebrity.
You should be concerned regardless. He is backed by considerably smarter people whose agenda is way worse than last time. Regardless if Trump pays attention or not the worst people will be unhindered. He isn't even a blocking element to those people taking power because Trump is at worst a rubber stamp and more likely a corpse given his age and lifestyle.
Short version, there isn't even a remote, barely visible silver lining.
Last time he had career politicians who kept his worst impulses in check.
Those people are gone now.
If anybody thinks this is going to go like last time, you are going to be in for a real shocker next year.
A part of me is honestly hoping for the "he's actually in piss poor health and going to die soon" thing but his VP will be in charge and that isn't going to be much better.
Someone like billionaire backed JD Vance perhaps?
The ones who voted against him understand well how it happened. The ones who voted for him never questioned how, because it never entered their minds to care.
Or that everyone now is so fast to call people fascist that they never took it seriously enough to study it.
Don't think it won't happen to you. When the incoming wave of Ukrainian refugees hits Europe, the populists that have already been growing in popularity will make their move. With the U.S. fallen, a lot of money and attention has been freed up to destabilize other countries.
It's happening in Italy. It's happening in the Netherlands. It's happening in France. If you think you are ready for it, remember that we thought the same.
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