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Do You Understand How Dangerous This Moment Is — How Far We've Drifted? (www.commondreams.org)

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Once the government claims the right to strip anyone of due process, rights cease to be rights and become privileges, granted or revoked at the whim of those in power. That is not a constitutional democracy. That is the scaffolding of fascism.

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[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 1 points 13 hours ago

Yeah, well we didn't manage to stop Trump when he wasn't in office, and I squarely blame Democrats for that. Maybe Harris would have been better in the long view, but maybe not...

Yes, Trump and co are going to try to rig the elections. Or more accurately, they're currently trying to rig state elections to work out what will work and what won't

But Trump is his own worst enemy... Well, second worst, after Musk. People are fucking livid with him, and they're about to be a lot more upset when they see empty shelves. People are demanding representatives do something, and Trump's actions haven't even really hit people yet... But they will

We are where we are, the gunmen are shooting people at random. They're demanding we march even faster.

Which is obviously bad, but they're also backing us into a corner. The sheer amount of malicious incompetence means that people are reacting, even diehard maga are starting to wonder if they messed up. Today we even had MTG go for a power grab

It's going to be an interesting summer