We are boiled frogs in regards to fascism in the US.
Look at the facts:
We have the largest prison population in the world, which is mostly black. Slavery is still legal as punishment for crime.
We have a surveillance state that watches all of us all the time.
Dissent and protest results in brutal militarized police response.
We have militarized police. With tanks.
We scapegoat immigrants (Biden hardly changed any trump policies.)
Criticism of US policy and actions is instinctively seen as unpatriotic by a large number of citizens.
The existence of our country is largely due to the genocide of native Americans, but that really triggers the national cognitive dissonance.
The wealth of our country was in large part built on the backs of slaves, and continues today in prison labor, but also in regular workers who get a tiny fraction of the wealth they generate for corporations and billionaires.
We do not have a democracy. Corporations and billionaires have captured our government and control 80%+ of the media we consume, easily drowning us in the propaganda they want to push. Nobody is immune, not me, not you. The largest consent manufacturer in history is operating in front of our eyes, but we can’t see it because it’s the sea we swim in.
Corporations and billionaires control who even gets to run in national elections by promoting those that will toe the line. Why bother fixing the actual elections when you can just control who is allowed to get the job in the first place.
The fascism people are worried about came in quietly and made itself at home. It isn’t a Hitler. It isn’t a Mussolini. Hell, it isn’t even a Trump (although he would make things much worse.) The fascists are who they’ve always been. Pick your name - corps and billionaires, the 1%, the bourgeois.
And on top of all of that, one person wants to actively make it worse, just bc he gets to skim a bit from the top. We deserve our fate I suppose, when we refuse to see something even after it is painstakingly pointed out to us, but damned if I’m not still sad about it.:-(
We are boiled frogs in regards to fascism in the US.
Look at the facts:
We have the largest prison population in the world, which is mostly black. Slavery is still legal as punishment for crime.
We have a surveillance state that watches all of us all the time.
Dissent and protest results in brutal militarized police response.
We have militarized police. With tanks.
We scapegoat immigrants (Biden hardly changed any trump policies.)
Criticism of US policy and actions is instinctively seen as unpatriotic by a large number of citizens.
The existence of our country is largely due to the genocide of native Americans, but that really triggers the national cognitive dissonance.
The wealth of our country was in large part built on the backs of slaves, and continues today in prison labor, but also in regular workers who get a tiny fraction of the wealth they generate for corporations and billionaires.
We do not have a democracy. Corporations and billionaires have captured our government and control 80%+ of the media we consume, easily drowning us in the propaganda they want to push. Nobody is immune, not me, not you. The largest consent manufacturer in history is operating in front of our eyes, but we can’t see it because it’s the sea we swim in.
Corporations and billionaires control who even gets to run in national elections by promoting those that will toe the line. Why bother fixing the actual elections when you can just control who is allowed to get the job in the first place.
The fascism people are worried about came in quietly and made itself at home. It isn’t a Hitler. It isn’t a Mussolini. Hell, it isn’t even a Trump (although he would make things much worse.) The fascists are who they’ve always been. Pick your name - corps and billionaires, the 1%, the bourgeois.
It’s already here.
And on top of all of that, one person wants to actively make it worse, just bc he gets to skim a bit from the top. We deserve our fate I suppose, when we refuse to see something even after it is painstakingly pointed out to us, but damned if I’m not still sad about it.:-(