The Minneapolis mayor calls for ICE to get the fuck out of their city, and the Republicans classify that as obstruction.
The administration/DOJ are going to keep pushing for more extreme and absurd interpretations of basic acts so as to make them look seditious. It's clearly an organized program to install right-wing government everywhere by declaring any opposition - right down to even asking questions - as a crime.
We are so far from the America that the founders envisioned - even accounting for the passage of time and the course of 250 years of modernization - that we can technically declare that we are not America any more.
We have to start thinking seriously about what a version 2.0 of our country will look like. We're not going back to what we were. I really believe we've forever lost the rule-of-law state we used to be and will have to angle hard for higher levels of state autonomy. We'll be going back to "free" (blue) and "slave" (red) states. I'm not referring to actual slavery. Rather, I'm talking about free blue states where science is still believed and taught, personal and political freedoms still exist, we have a strong separation between church and state, we'll work for the environment and not against it and there's no coercion to adhere to a conservative world view. This, versus red slave states where citizens will be slaves to a conservative brand of Christianity which will be the state-sanctioned religion with penalties for apostasy, women and minorities will be subservient to white men, there will be no separation of powers and an all-powerful executive will exist, and everyone will be under tight surveillance by the police and will see penalties for non-compliant behavior - not unlike a powerful version of China's social credit system, except it will be managed by Palantir, Ellison, Zuckerberg and the new Nazi tech bros.
I've basically given up hope. I'm convinced so much chaos will reign for the upcoming election that few states will be able to cleanly certify their results. Red states will fall in line with Trump and will try to cancel or manipulate their elections. Control of congress will be inconclusive and we'll be in a crisis so deep that even the judiciary won't be able to get us out of it.
Dems need planning. There should be working groups at the DNC right now, meeting every week and coming up with strategies. I have no indication that this is happening.
Someone talk me down.
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