“To navigate this moment, Americans must sustain a kind of double vision, recognizing that their country is confronting authoritarianism while not forgetting that avenues for democratic contestation remain open. Losing sight of either truth invites defeat: complacency if the danger is underestimated, fatalism if it is overestimated. The outcome of this struggle remains open.”
I remember when the news came in, there was a lot of fear and there was nothing I could say to people to make it okay.
We were not okay then and one year later it’s worse than I predicted.
Coincidentally I’ve noticed a shift in the bots and propaganda on Reddit lately (no account, whatever appears on the redlib front page), attempting to downplay and normalise the abject corruption and criminality with hot takes like “it’s nowhere near as bad as the media makes it seem for the average American”. Like yeah… 1930’s Europe was decent for 95% of Europeans… Right up until it wasn’t, after fascism was normalised and caused the deaths of 100 million people.
And youtube is forcing Turning Point and anti anti-semetic ads.