I was just thinking today that this will never go away. I then realized that this ideologic poison has existed far longer than I have, and will sadly exist much longer than I will. I’m not sure what to do with that other than always stand up when I can, do what I can, and hope for the best. We have great potential.
I disagree with the sentiment that it’ll never go away
It may always be there, but it can certainly be sapped of all its power and reduced to an anemic husk of its most destructive self
We must simply muster the will to see our nation to such a state where it is not only achievable, but electorally effortless, something that should be easy enough considering how several of their top agenda items basically boil down to “stop people’s votes from counting truly equally to ours in terms of electoral impact.”
It devolves into a monarchy, it’s the exact thing this country was founded to protect against. Some asshole and his buddies, sorry ladies they don’t let you in the GOB club, will rule over everyone with the backing of the army and there won’t be anything any of us can do about it. Vote while you can.
Trump is the fascism vaccine: He is the figurehead for malevolent forces that have been at work for many many years in the twisty tunnels underneath City America, and are now strong enough to come up onto the regular streets – but he comes in weakened form. He’s enough of a neutered fool to give the system time to learn to recognize the danger, and react accordingly in the future when it comes about for real. If it had been anyone else on January 6th, with competent, prepared execution that any adult who’d spent his career surviving in politics would have done, then all the people in the federal government who’d tried to stand in his way would already be in prison, and US-hosted Lemmy instances would already be required by law to interface with the software that monitored for unpatriotic postings and users. Also Gaza would, I think, be a massive graveyard, a haunting, mostly-empty place that most of the world tried not to think about.
I am 0% joking or exaggerating about any of that. It doesn’t mean that Project 2025 is safe by any means, but this is actually the safest possible means and details by which it could come to us, and if we can’t deal with this version, then that’s on us.
Unfortunately there are a lot of people pissed at our current immune system, complaining that it’s too old and weak to meet the standard of perfection they demand immediately. So instead of trying to keep it alive and build a strengthened immune system over time, they’re planning to just let the patient die, despite knowing how that would make their lives many times worse. It’s up to the rest of us to keep the patient alive and work to improve its health, in spite of them.
The young and inexperienced are disillusioned. Theyve not yet experienced that it takes years for any meaningful change to happen.
At the same time, we also have bad faith actors trying to focus our gaze only where they want it, (e.x. the accounts that only insist on posting news of the Gazan genocide) thus trying to ensure that the youth in this country checks out of any meaningful political action in this country.
The struggle of Good and Evil is such that Good must always fight against Evil and win repeatedly. Evil will never be destroyed. We just have to fight and win every time it emerges.
On the contrary though, Evil just needs to win once. And while it isn’t a permanent win, an era of Evil lasts much longer than an era of Good.
All we can do is decide what to do with the time we have left. Voting every year to keep evil at the bottom where they belong is the easiest thing we can do.
I was just thinking today that this will never go away. I then realized that this ideologic poison has existed far longer than I have, and will sadly exist much longer than I will. I’m not sure what to do with that other than always stand up when I can, do what I can, and hope for the best. We have great potential.
I disagree with the sentiment that it’ll never go away
It may always be there, but it can certainly be sapped of all its power and reduced to an anemic husk of its most destructive self
We must simply muster the will to see our nation to such a state where it is not only achievable, but electorally effortless, something that should be easy enough considering how several of their top agenda items basically boil down to “stop people’s votes from counting truly equally to ours in terms of electoral impact.”
We did it in California. The Republicans are powerless and have been for generations. It’s pretty great.
The seeds of volition will always bring forth a new challenger.
It devolves into a monarchy, it’s the exact thing this country was founded to protect against. Some asshole and his buddies, sorry ladies they don’t let you in the GOB club, will rule over everyone with the backing of the army and there won’t be anything any of us can do about it. Vote while you can.
all heil Kaiser Drumpf, first of his name and lord protector of the fascist american empire wannabe…
Trump is the fascism vaccine: He is the figurehead for malevolent forces that have been at work for many many years in the twisty tunnels underneath City America, and are now strong enough to come up onto the regular streets – but he comes in weakened form. He’s enough of a neutered fool to give the system time to learn to recognize the danger, and react accordingly in the future when it comes about for real. If it had been anyone else on January 6th, with competent, prepared execution that any adult who’d spent his career surviving in politics would have done, then all the people in the federal government who’d tried to stand in his way would already be in prison, and US-hosted Lemmy instances would already be required by law to interface with the software that monitored for unpatriotic postings and users. Also Gaza would, I think, be a massive graveyard, a haunting, mostly-empty place that most of the world tried not to think about.
I am 0% joking or exaggerating about any of that. It doesn’t mean that Project 2025 is safe by any means, but this is actually the safest possible means and details by which it could come to us, and if we can’t deal with this version, then that’s on us.
Unfortunately there are a lot of people pissed at our current immune system, complaining that it’s too old and weak to meet the standard of perfection they demand immediately. So instead of trying to keep it alive and build a strengthened immune system over time, they’re planning to just let the patient die, despite knowing how that would make their lives many times worse. It’s up to the rest of us to keep the patient alive and work to improve its health, in spite of them.
The young and inexperienced are disillusioned. Theyve not yet experienced that it takes years for any meaningful change to happen.
At the same time, we also have bad faith actors trying to focus our gaze only where they want it, (e.x. the accounts that only insist on posting news of the Gazan genocide) thus trying to ensure that the youth in this country checks out of any meaningful political action in this country.
The struggle of Good and Evil is such that Good must always fight against Evil and win repeatedly. Evil will never be destroyed. We just have to fight and win every time it emerges.
On the contrary though, Evil just needs to win once. And while it isn’t a permanent win, an era of Evil lasts much longer than an era of Good.
All we can do is decide what to do with the time we have left. Voting every year to keep evil at the bottom where they belong is the easiest thing we can do.
And the best part is that Democrats’ “we’re second worst so you have to vote for us regardless of how shitty we are” strategy only has to fail once.
No kidding. Why do something to prevent it from being possible in the future when the threat of it occuring is half your platform?
I hate that, outside of primaries and very local things, I’m always voting against someone rather than for someone.
Even in the primaries, I was voting against someone.
That’s how democracy works dude. Compromise is a fundamental part of it.