I’ve always been curious how fascism takes hold, and how people like Hitler, Stalin. etc rise to power. Do people not see what is happening? Shouldn’t hindsight, foresight and common sense kick in at some point? I used t think they were like mob bosses early on - anyone disagreeing with them ends up in a barrel, but surely were civilized and educated by now?
It seems the people don’t want to jeopardize their comfortable livelihoods and individual lives so expect the ‘powerful elected officials’ to do their bidding. After all, the public gave them the power to do just that. Otoh, the politicians don’t want to jeopardize their cushy jobs and accumulated power by challenging the majority, so are waiting for the public to start a jan6 situation so they can point and say, ‘see, the people are unhappy so we should act’.
It’s a shitstorm of no consequences and a man child hacking away at the country and no one seems to be doing anything meaningful. I’m literally watching fascism take place.
History/ psychology/ sociology majors care to chime in?
Enforcing long standing immigration laws don’t count as that lol. You know what does? Introducing things like “vaccine passports”, mandating vaccines to keep your job, contact tracing, digital IDs, trying to get rid of free speech, etc. Do any of those sound familiar?
Also your comment about the lies about DCs crime rate is hilarious given the allegations and investigations into doctoring of the crime statistics to make it look safer than it is. The police officers union are the ones making the allegations btw, so it’s hard to argue against them when they’re the ones who are being ordered by higher ups to report lower offences than what actually occurred.