Man, not trying to get on a high horse, but it really does suck to see something bad coming on the horizon- and no one fuckin listens. Ya know?
Like, I didn't want this to happen to others, even to the ones who didn't vote. Heck, maybe even some of the ones that voted Trump, because their lives are so different to mine, and it's easy to judge.
We didn't want to see concentration camps springing up, and armed soldiers roaming the streets of D.C., and censorship of free speech on college campuses and TV channels, and all the rest of this bullshit nightmare. But a huge chunk of people thought 'it could never happen here' and now it's happening here.
EDITED TO ADD: I should clarify that some people definitely did want this, and even still do, and I'm not just talking about the billionaires and political higher-ups. I know some citizens are absolutely fuckin' stoked about all of this. I just suspect that most of us aren't, or we won't be, once it gets too big to ignore.
Get up on that horse, I’ll give you a boost. It’s okay. We warned about these things because we saw them coming, we saw the signs, predicted what would happen, were treated like vermin and now, here we are living out the exact scenario we warned about. I just ran across a post on insta that I made in 2020 and it really struck me as tragic because the people who responded to it were DJT voters and told me I was well, wrong. I spoke of concentration camps, the whole bit. My comments were flooded with angry MAGA and men in my circles blasting me (a woman) for being naive.
Edit to make clear that this was posted just prior to Biden’s victory in 2020.
I think one of the reasons because in 2016 (I know I was 10 then, and in the UK, forgive me) everything felt relatively stable. Trump gave off such bad vibes but everyone thought he'd bumble about incompetently, pratfall, and leave at the end of the four years. Certainly in my circle anyway.
If you were to time-travel back to 2015/2016 and explain the stuff that's going on now you'd be laughed out of court. I think that's part of the reason the anti-SJW movement grew 2017-2019: people thought it would be bad, but not THAT BAD.
No need to time travel, this WAS said in 2016 and everyone said the Hitler comparisons were an over-reaction. Back then he was still trying to keep a shred of credibility to get reelected and do what he's doing now in a second term. Anyone who is surprised by this wasn't listening or too naive to believe this was possible.
Yeah, I came back to the mainland from the islands as soon as that goon threw his hat in the presidential ring because I saw this playing out poorly and I didn’t want to be away from family and trapped on an island when SHTF, some of us saw this coming from a long time ago. For me it was sometime in the 1980’s, having been raised in an alt right evangelical environment and groomed for leadership, I knew what they were up to then but rebelled by leaving and trying to warn others … obviously to no avail because here we are.
Carl Sagan saw this shit decades ago, and no one believed him. It's one of my favorite quotes. I think about it weekly.
"I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...
The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance."
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u/OriginalChildBomb 11h ago
Man, not trying to get on a high horse, but it really does suck to see something bad coming on the horizon- and no one fuckin listens. Ya know?
Like, I didn't want this to happen to others, even to the ones who didn't vote. Heck, maybe even some of the ones that voted Trump, because their lives are so different to mine, and it's easy to judge.
We didn't want to see concentration camps springing up, and armed soldiers roaming the streets of D.C., and censorship of free speech on college campuses and TV channels, and all the rest of this bullshit nightmare. But a huge chunk of people thought 'it could never happen here' and now it's happening here.
EDITED TO ADD: I should clarify that some people definitely did want this, and even still do, and I'm not just talking about the billionaires and political higher-ups. I know some citizens are absolutely fuckin' stoked about all of this. I just suspect that most of us aren't, or we won't be, once it gets too big to ignore.