“The United States, just months before its 250th birthday as the world’s leading democracy, has tipped over the edge into authoritarianism and fascism,” Garrett Graff, the American historian and author, wrote in August. “In the end, faster than I imagined possible, it did happen here.”

One awakes to new horrors each day. And it is difficult to grasp – and painful to realize – just how far gone we are, and how quickly it has happened.

    • RyanDownyJr@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      I’ll second this. Some of us do “have a family” and we are just trying to get out like it’s 1940 France…

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      4 months ago

      Right, because you can’t possibly understand, recognize and prepare yourself for fascism unless it’s actively in your country.

      Woe is you.

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          4 months ago

          Am I a third party observer? Really?

          Come on now. If you want to have a debate, do better than that.

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              4 months ago

              It might not be my government, but your president has openly threatened my sovereignty and is currently engaged in economic and psychological warfare against my country.

              I am not a third party to American fascism any more than Ukraine is a third party to Russian authoritarianism.