Here’s what people, both libs and lefty radicals, aren’t getting. This time won’t be like last time. Last time you had three things on your side: belief in a ‘normal,’ mass shock and revulsion, and the courts at least pretending at continuity of legal process. You had hope for a correction. Hope’s over. Now you get a genuine dictatorship, of indeterminate length and severity.
Normal’s been over for years, shock’s gone because Blue MAGA spent four years pounding on reform and dissent and expanding the police state and the previous administration’s policies, even after Trump and his goons no longer had authority, and the courts are stacked with people working some personal angle or with outright fascists. People aren’t going to resist, this time. They’re just going to try and keep quiet and survive it or leave, either of which is the intelligent move, frankly.
Even the pretend politically rhetorical TV version of America that we lie to children, and to the rest of the world, about is over. It’s done. As someone who wasted years trying to prevent the moment in which we all presently find ourselves, I would suggest people just keep their heads low and try to ride it out or escape. Let it die, because it’s going to try and kill you whether you’re trying to save it or not.
You try and play hero without enough swagger, cunning, and organization this time around and the nightmare state that’s coming will squash you. You haven’t seen anything in your sheltered lifetime like what’s coming. And you’ll receive no thanks for your sacrifices. When people discover there’s nothing more they can use or get from you, when your ideas and ways become inconvenient, they’ll let you die, and your efforts will be forgotten. If I were you guys, I’d start looking out for number one.