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thucythucy

(9,153 posts)
Mon Aug 11, 2025, 11:09 PM Aug 2025

"It's up to elected officials to devise a plan."

In other words, you have no ideas, no thoughts other than "someone else should tell me what to do."

Which right there is at the heart of why authoritarians are so often successful.

And the roles have never been reversed. That is, Democrats have never come close to attempting to undermine our modern democracy as Trump and his enablers are doing now. We are living through an unprecedented threat to our democracy. Is it any wonder people are struggling with how to make more meaningful responses?

Perhaps the closest analogy was when we won the 2020 election, and Trump incited a mob of violent thugs to attack the Capitol, smear its walls with shit, assault police and attempt to murder our elected leaders.

Surely you aren't suggesting we take that sort of action, or are you?

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