I’ve gotten downvoted before but I’ll say it again. I think it’s going to take A LOT more to push enough people to that point. The problem with fascism is that every step is just a little bit worse than before, so everyone gets used to it and only sees that the next step is just a little worse to complain about, but it’s never enough to throw up the bat signal and wake people up to significantly push back. There’s a whole quote about this somewhere I don’t quite remember.
Most people are too comfortable to take such extreme measures right now, which is actually good in many ways, but bad in the sense that doing nothing or peaceful protests won’t magically start working now. We’re going to see more onsey twosy stochastic violence events, then slowly it’ll grow, and the regime will push back even more strongly to gain more control (e.g. Enabling Act).
It’s a real fucking bad spot to be in, and 30% of the electorate still cheers it on.
You might be thinking of a quote from The Handmaid’s Tale book about how if you put a frog in water and just turn the temperature up slowly, it won’t notice it’s boiling.
I fear that by the time America is willing to properly fight back, it’ll be too late
I’ve gotten downvoted before but I’ll say it again. I think it’s going to take A LOT more to push enough people to that point. The problem with fascism is that every step is just a little bit worse than before, so everyone gets used to it and only sees that the next step is just a little worse to complain about, but it’s never enough to throw up the bat signal and wake people up to significantly push back. There’s a whole quote about this somewhere I don’t quite remember.
Most people are too comfortable to take such extreme measures right now, which is actually good in many ways, but bad in the sense that doing nothing or peaceful protests won’t magically start working now. We’re going to see more onsey twosy stochastic violence events, then slowly it’ll grow, and the regime will push back even more strongly to gain more control (e.g. Enabling Act).
It’s a real fucking bad spot to be in, and 30% of the electorate still cheers it on.
You might be thinking of a quote from The Handmaid’s Tale book about how if you put a frog in water and just turn the temperature up slowly, it won’t notice it’s boiling.
I fear that by the time America is willing to properly fight back, it’ll be too late
Thanks for the suggestion, but nope I went and looked it up.
It’s Milton Mayer from They Thought They Were Free about Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. Definitely an important passage everyone should read.
I think holocaust education in schools failed. There should have been more focus on understanding how it was allowed to happen