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Don't assume the horrors of the Trump administration will be over after the next election (lemmy.ca)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca to c/rant
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Fuck this optimism. We need realism. And I don't mean pessimism, I mean realism. Pessimism is assuming nothing will change for the better. Optimism is assuming troubles will pass without you having to do anything. Realism is adjusting the sails.

This isn't inevitably going to end after the midterms or after the next scheduled presidential election. Those responsible aren't inevitably going to be prosecuted. It'll only happen if someone makes it happen.

Everyone needs to stop assuming this will pass. The world needs to gear up to protect itself, America needs to do something about this mess. The sooner America and the rest of the world recognizes that America is now a fascist dictatorship, the sooner something might be able to be done about it.

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[โ€“] skeezix@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

America needs to do something about this mess.

This isn't something that happened to America. This is something America chose. Enough people will still choose it. And they're choosing it around the world. It's not a physical mess to clean up, it's a combination of mental sickness, ignorance, and racism. You cant change policy until you change the way people think.

How do you get 70 million Americans to accept that they are not voting in their best interests? that they have been hoodwinked by alarmist media? that racism is driving their actions? (although many admit willingly they're racist)

[โ€“] Serinus@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's a little of each. There was a lot of social media propaganda and traditional media propaganda. But in the end, people still had to choose. They still voted (or didn't).