i can't even guess as to why they went quiet. not one guess at all. we will never know.
edit: well they're not quiet now once they get called out
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Yes when you cultivate a brainwashed mob of barely literate hateful fools you can manipulate them pretty easily.
Frankly I've abandoned democracy. We aren't responsible enough to keep it and it's grown to onerous to manage. It's a garden that has overgrown our house. I doubt what's coming will be better but hatching is rarely a good thing from the viewpoint of the eggshell.
Right. But unfortunately that's our reality. We have to build up. If we ever want to move that Overton window... well now it jumped ten steps to the right. It doesn't go back and forth between each cabinet. It just keeps sliding into the right because again: the right has no standards and is happy to march in lockstep while we quibble over which progressive policy just isn't good enough.
I fear we deserve to watch the nation burn because like you said, democracy requires vigilance