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Sounds about right. My wife has friends abroad that have been calling and asking if everything is alright, then start the questions of how we let this happen, why don't we do anything about it, etc. And I'll be honest, I do feel pretty helpless at the moment and very uneasy about the next period of time. I've been reading quite a bit about WWII and how Germany got into their situation, and almost too much if it parallels. Most of the population was sick of the status quo and wanted change, those who spoke up and tried pointing certain things out were labeled as worrying lunatics, and most of society was too ignorant to care until it was too late. I mean, what the hell is an individual to do? I could grab my rifle and take to the streets, and immediately get gunned down by cops, or start writing letters that will pretty just get me added to a list at this point.
Well they didn't have any past government examples to use as a warning. News and communication back then was also much more limited.
They literally had street battles with armed communists and ww1 veterans fighting each other. The average person was so horrified of living in a war zone that they voted for any party who could stop it.
I'm reading about the Nicaraguan fascist takeover because I already know enough about WW2 that I wanted to extend from the data I already get. I recommend Victoria Gonzalez's "Before the Revolution" - https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-latin-american-studies/article/abs/victoria-gonzalezrivera-before-the-revolution-womens-rights-and-rightwing-politics-in-nicaragua-18211979-university-park-pa-penn-state-university-press-2011-pp-xxviii224-6495-hb/D8272AB5737CA6237F2A67CD5B4EC444
Considering most other countries are voting in right-wing governments, sounds like they're in the process of "letting it happen" as well.
No doubt there's a major push globally to descend into authoritarianism, arguably under the auspice that people are fed up with capitalism and voting for something different. But it's hard to convince billions of people that the real root is a handful of billionaires playing Pinky and the Brain. We'll just have to see, unfortunately.
You'd think the three billionaires standing behind Trump at his inauguration would be a bit of a clue.
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