The only real path out of this is economic collapse.
The administration has engineered a clever slow rolling authoritarian takeover. There is no single line in the sand that you can point to and say this is where authoritarianism starts or this is where fascism starts. And pointing out a dozen things sounds hyperbolic “oh you think everything’s fascism”.’
The American citizens are going to sit here like a slowly boiling frog as long as there’s never one singular shock. And unless there’s a tea party-esque movement on the left in 26 the Democrats are not coming to save us.
But if there’s a crash like '08, and they’re very well could be, they’re not going to be able to sound bite their way out of that.
The only real path out of this is economic collapse.
The administration has engineered a clever slow rolling authoritarian takeover. There is no single line in the sand that you can point to and say this is where authoritarianism starts or this is where fascism starts. And pointing out a dozen things sounds hyperbolic “oh you think everything’s fascism”.’
The American citizens are going to sit here like a slowly boiling frog as long as there’s never one singular shock. And unless there’s a tea party-esque movement on the left in 26 the Democrats are not coming to save us.
But if there’s a crash like '08, and they’re very well could be, they’re not going to be able to sound bite their way out of that.
I’m fine with the analogy but always want to point out: they ran the experiment, the frog jumps out. To the analogy too far, we’re worse than frogs.