All the stuff I tried to convince people to work to prevent in the US is happening now. And everyone says, "How could anyone have known this would happen?"
Uh, everyone who has ever studied WWII Germany and had any familiarity with the merging of US evangelical "Christianity" and the GOP knew EXACTLY what was coming, and we've been warning people about it since at LEAST the Dubya administration--some before that.
But everyone just skipped primaries, skipped canvassing, voted every four years (at most) and patted themselves on the back for "doing their part," or in increasing numbers boycotted elections entirely, while practically ALL the hard right-wingers voted to get the person closest to their policy positions into office--ANY office, whether local, state, or federal. Even if no one represented their desired policy positions, they just picked the one that was least opposed.
And they did this for decades, to push the window to the right, while many on the left refused to vote at all because voting for any of the available candidates might compromise their moral purity. (The right worked very hard to convince everyone NOT on their side that "your vote doesn't matter," and "both parties are exactly the same." And they were successful at it for so long that the parties ARE now increasingly alike in policy, and your vote DOES matter less. The parties are not QUITE the same yet, but both are hard right-wing, and both support genocide.)
The far right has talked about their plan openly for decades, too. It's never been a secret. I remember as a little kid in the 1960s hearing the grown-ups after church talking about the need to raise kids who would run for office or become cops or soldiers to enforce their twisted, totalitarian views on, first the US, and then the entire world.
And all of us who warned about this and fought for decades to prevent it are so fucking TIRED.
I gave up. I left the US. All I can do is help advise other people on how to get out, and encourage the ones who are left. I'm old and crippled now, and all I can do is get my family as far away from the US as possible and HOPE the orange shitgibbon and his minions don't set off WWIII. (Because that's always been part of the evangelical plan, as well.)
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