And no, I'm not saying don't vote; I'm saying that there comes a point when voting isn't going to solve the problem
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Do you believe we are at or past that point?
Who's "we"?
We Finns? No.
We Americans? Maybe? Getting close at least.
We Russians? Yes.
I don’t think Americans really understand what January 6th was. And what the actual failure to hold anyone accountable four years later means.
We spend decades learning about similar events in school, but when they actually happen we just shrug and keep going.
people don't want to imagine themselves living in a dystopian hellhole, so they adamantly deny that it'll ever, ever happen in this country.
as it's happening right in front of their face
On top of that, folks like to imagine they'd march with MLK but then they bitch about folks doing the kind of peaceful protesting he did.
There are no entirely peaceful mass protests any more. It's impossible to get a large procession of angry people in this day and age to stay peaceful. As soon as one person acts out, then the police go and squash the protest, which causes chaos and more violence. Then people post videos of the incident claiming that it was a riot to begin with.
Claims like that got made back in the MLK days too, now we got cameras everywhere though.
You're entirely correct, but we didn't have the Internet, a misinformation super-spreader, nor did we have Russian or Chinese disinformation agents.
I think a lot of people simply don't care; even if they didn't vote for the Face-Eating Leopard Party, they think they're safe because the leopards have only eaten the faces of people they don't really personally know or ultimately care all that much about. A generic liberal/centrist may not be an outright 'phobe or racist, but that's about the extent of their convictions.
When the leopards start eating the faces of LGBT+ people they'll go "oh dear this is terrible" when they read about it in the news, maybe make a social media post, feel bad for a while, and then move on with their day.