Over the past decade, US immigration agents have shot and killed more than two dozen people. Not a single agent appears to have faced criminal charges.
Yes, you could also put it this way: the reason is that the US has not been a constitutional state for decades and that US citizens have allowed this to happen. Now the system is turning even against those who stood by and watched. The most absurd thing about all this is that there is still no repression like in a dictatorship, which is what it will ultimately lead to, and yet there is no significant civil resistance, even though injustice is already clearly prevailing. On the contrary, people still believe that they live in a constitutional state and that the rule of law, which is so obviously non-existent, will sort things out.
People still defend waiting for midterms as though it’ll save them. Just earlier today I linked to Trump saying we shouldn’t have elections and someone came in to tell me he’d launch a lawsuit if it was canceled.
Democracy is being stamped out by the day by armed thugs murdering people and he’s putting all his money on a lawsuit. There won’t be anything left of his freedom by then.
Yes, I’m from Germany, and that’s the same attitude that our grandparents can rightly be accused of.
Fascism is only possible because of the inaction of the population, their reluctance to act even in the face of the worst atrocities.
The difference to my grandparents, however, is that the internet makes everything public right from the get-go, which was absolutely not the case in Nazi Germany.
Unfortunately, the result is still the same: apathy toward a terrorist regime that could be overthrown, for which there are numerous examples in completely different power situations.
Iran currently provides the most impressive example of how resistance is possible even in a truly repressive system, which the US is by no means. I mean, measured by what US citizens understand as repression - how much more courage does it take to rise up against a long-established autocratic regime? And then the US president also announces that he is on the side of the demonstrators in order to sweep his own, naturally much milder repressive measures in his own country under the carpet.
It’s just sad and entirely preventable that the US is succumbing to autocracy, but that is what will happen—and the inactive US citizens are to blame, even if they do not want to hear it.
The fact that the US is going downhill can be seen even in the attitude of US Lemmy users. Even those who are in no way comparable to the average US citizen still have a very strange sense of national pride that clouds their view of reality.
Agreed. Lemmy users are generally more left than most and even here there are so many people justifying inaction. It’s infuriating to watch them lose their democracy without even trying.
Yes, you could also put it this way: the reason is that the US has not been a constitutional state for decades and that US citizens have allowed this to happen. Now the system is turning even against those who stood by and watched. The most absurd thing about all this is that there is still no repression like in a dictatorship, which is what it will ultimately lead to, and yet there is no significant civil resistance, even though injustice is already clearly prevailing. On the contrary, people still believe that they live in a constitutional state and that the rule of law, which is so obviously non-existent, will sort things out.
People still defend waiting for midterms as though it’ll save them. Just earlier today I linked to Trump saying we shouldn’t have elections and someone came in to tell me he’d launch a lawsuit if it was canceled.
Democracy is being stamped out by the day by armed thugs murdering people and he’s putting all his money on a lawsuit. There won’t be anything left of his freedom by then.
Yes, I’m from Germany, and that’s the same attitude that our grandparents can rightly be accused of.
Fascism is only possible because of the inaction of the population, their reluctance to act even in the face of the worst atrocities.
The difference to my grandparents, however, is that the internet makes everything public right from the get-go, which was absolutely not the case in Nazi Germany.
Unfortunately, the result is still the same: apathy toward a terrorist regime that could be overthrown, for which there are numerous examples in completely different power situations.
Iran currently provides the most impressive example of how resistance is possible even in a truly repressive system, which the US is by no means. I mean, measured by what US citizens understand as repression - how much more courage does it take to rise up against a long-established autocratic regime? And then the US president also announces that he is on the side of the demonstrators in order to sweep his own, naturally much milder repressive measures in his own country under the carpet.
It’s just sad and entirely preventable that the US is succumbing to autocracy, but that is what will happen—and the inactive US citizens are to blame, even if they do not want to hear it.
The fact that the US is going downhill can be seen even in the attitude of US Lemmy users. Even those who are in no way comparable to the average US citizen still have a very strange sense of national pride that clouds their view of reality.
Agreed. Lemmy users are generally more left than most and even here there are so many people justifying inaction. It’s infuriating to watch them lose their democracy without even trying.