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They won't stop unless someone makes them stop. That's how movements like this work, every single time. They never wind down on their own. They have to constantly keep increasing the cruelty and extremism, or else their base will see weakness and abandon them. However bad you think it is now, it's only going to get worse, unless someone puts an end to it. Historically, there are only a few ways a fascist movement has ever been stopped, and none of them are pretty.
Generally, things chug along getting worse and worse, until suddenly we reach a tipping point. Then something happens, often small and innocuous, and it tips. Then there's no stopping it.
The Berlin Wall came down when a single guard decided on his own that he wasn't going to stop the growing crowd that appeared after an East German government official accidentally declared at a press conference that they would finally allow emigration, following increasingly large protests. When the world woke up that morning, NOBODY knew this would happen that day. Not a single intelligence agency anywhere on the planet predicted it. It totally surprised the entire world.
Its likely that protests and outrage in America will grow, even among disgruntled MAGAs, and one day, its just going explode, probably over something fairly small. The fuse has already been lit.
This is the outcome I hope for. The other possibilities are a lot more messy.
We don't have 28 years for things to boil over. Could you even imagine what would be left of the country by then?
when you put it like that
I guess its a good thing the police havent been militarizing, and filling their roster full of violent trigger happy assholes who radicalized themselves into thinking they're the thin blue line between civilization and savagery,
There should never and will never be a point at which the police and military actually have control over the American population. Our population is one of the most violent on earth. We birthed those psychotic police officers. We made them. There’s no reason for them to scare us more than anyone else does.
They only pretend to have control. Anyone with half an iota of brainpower and understanding of numbers and revolt knows there’s only one thing to fear in this country and it’s the general population.
Are you suggesting that people just lie down and take it?
No, Im saying things are so far gone that violence is looking inevitable. and that the men of power are already well prepared to commit mass violence to protest their way of life by way of bloodthirsty "police" and private security on the payroll.
It's not going to get better until and unless citizens take the initiative to reclaim their country.
Yea, I have always thought about the future scenario. When they get tired of picking on the immigrant, they'll turn to citizens. Really crazy and scary thought to even have to consider.
The cleanest way this can possibly end now is with the cult leader being removed....one way or another. Assuming the cult collapses afterward and doesn't just attach itself to some other scumfuck that immediately steps up to fill the void.
Vance and Musk need to be taken out as well. I don't think MAGA would last long without a leader, but as stupid as WE think Vance/Musk are, remember we also see Trump as a lying con-man, and MAGA supporters rally around him.
The optimistic side of me believes this can happen. MAGA has tied themselves and their movement very tightly to Trump. Not to conservatism in general, not to any kind of policy in specific, but to the unique personality of Trump. They tried with DeSantis, and he flamed out hard. They're trying with Vance, but he's such an awkward goof that it'll never work.
I don't think the MAGA virus can survive in another host, and I think that's why they are trying to rush into full on Fascism while Trump is still around. Once he's gone, the Republican party is going to eat itself in the power vacuum.
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