This is exactly what a lot of progressives were saying the past couple of years, that when normal people saw how brutal and gross the immigration policy they were voting for was they would lose their stomach for it. Trouble is the US doesn't change its policies based on the opinions of its citizenry.

[–] axont@hexbear.net 17 points 3 days ago

Politics are completely imaginary things that happen on TV for the average American. It's the spectacle they want. The only time it becomes real is when they personally start to feel the effects, or start to think the effects might hit them. When the TV is no longer showing old guys getting angry, but instead showing masked ICE agents shooting tear gas and shoving people into vans, then yeah it does make the average person anxious. The American is a docile animal who likes to make a lot of noise, but truly wants nothing to happen and nothing to change. Actual change is frightening and doesn't care about politics as a spectacule.

It's probably also very hard to spin the fact that ICE built a literal concentration camp, that looks like a concentration camp, right in Florida.

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