@Lili Marlene Yeah, that kind of goes back to my boiling the frog idea. The US just progressing along the transition to authoritarianism slowly (Dems) or more quickly (Reps). We're only comfortable if it's happening at a certain rate, and there's bad guys (Reps) and the corresponding Good Guys so we can shout about things and feel partisan.
My hope was that the current crop of Reps would be so bad, so extreme, that some realisation would happen, and something might actually change. Biden would bring a bit of calm, and then we can all congratulate ourselves that the good guys are back in power, and get back to boiling the frog slowly again.
just to respond to the imaginary question: "congratulations dickhead, and what do you propose is done in response?"
The appropriate response to anonymous Federal paramilitaries beating/seizing political enemies, is a general strike. Train drivers don't turn up, people stop paying rent, wide-ranging general basic stuff.
There needs to be an absolutely crushing response, which is still nowhere near coming. So, things still have to get worse before there's a chance they can get better, I guess.
My hope was that the current crop of Reps would be so bad, so extreme, that some realisation would happen, and something might actually change. Biden would bring a bit of calm, and then we can all congratulate ourselves that the good guys are back in power, and get back to boiling the frog slowly again.
just to respond to the imaginary question: "congratulations dickhead, and what do you propose is done in response?"
The appropriate response to anonymous Federal paramilitaries beating/seizing political enemies, is a general strike. Train drivers don't turn up, people stop paying rent, wide-ranging general basic stuff.
There needs to be an absolutely crushing response, which is still nowhere near coming. So, things still have to get worse before there's a chance they can get better, I guess.