I really hoped that I wouldn't have to extend the link list on Trump I started back in 2016 because I didn't understand how he could win.
Then again, I also didn't understand why Bush got re-elected. I just read a 20 year old blog post of mine: 2004-11-09 USA where I was grappling with it.
Trump is truly a setback for my priorities.
Fuck this timeline.
@mattwilcox@mstdn.social said it best:
Fascism is the inevitable result of a society with large imbalances of personal security. Which in a capitalist society means large imbalances of wealth.
If your society allows some people to be mega secure and untouchable, while also allowing large portions of it to feel very insecure... you will become a fascist society, eventually.
Do not allow this. Do not allow excessive wealth stratification. It. will. Destroy. Your. Civilisation.
The best defence against many divisive issues is to solve them. To leave festering wounds invites further prodding by the troll armies. Start small but start early, because soon the prodders are in power, prodding ever harder until it all falls apart.
Remember that these days, all dictators are voted in. The elections may be a farce, but it's always a legal farce. The people in power may be the most corrupt criminals but ever and always they are the ones fighting corruption. It's just that the corruption of their enemies is always uncovered and punished whereas their own is hidden in plain sight, know to all.
Look around at the countries around you. Erdoğan is still in power. Putin is still in power. Dictatorships may end eventually, but they take a fucking long time to fall. If it takes forty years, I won't be around to see it. It's hard to wait them out.
If you meet somebody thinking about a civil war with armed militia doing this or that, I'd say forget about all of that. In the real world, revolts that are not decisive inevitably lead to warlordism. Organised armed forces will shoot all the wanna-be resistance to bits. The police will beat the unarmed resistances into submission.
I take solace in the fact that when Stalin was dying and calling for help in his office, the attendants just didn't listen. They didn't open the door and the fucker died alone.
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