That was never going to happen because Trump isn’t some random fluke, but rather a symptom of a much greater disease. “Subtle fascism” is not a stable, sustainable state, it naturally produced Trump and even if it were somehow possible to reverse time and go back to that, it would simply produce another Trump-like figure.
There are only two possibilities: either conditions will continue to decline and we will get increasingly overt fascism, or we make radical changes to fix those conditions. Socialism or barbarism. Maintaining or returning to the status quo is not viable.
don’t get me wrong, i don’t want the status quo back, i just want to feel hopeful for the future again :(
don’t mind me either way tbf, i’m romanticising the past when the world was barely any better than now, i was simply more ignorant of what was going on around me. i’m aware of this, i don’t indulge in that feeing too often, but sometimes i do
Hey. I feel it, too. I’ve been grieving for the last year, especially seeing the atrocities of ICE grabbing people in our street. I really thought Trump was the low point and we’d be able to move forward as a nation and catch up with the rest of the world, especially after the Jan 6th Insurrection.
That was never going to happen because Trump isn’t some random fluke, but rather a symptom of a much greater disease. “Subtle fascism” is not a stable, sustainable state, it naturally produced Trump and even if it were somehow possible to reverse time and go back to that, it would simply produce another Trump-like figure.
There are only two possibilities: either conditions will continue to decline and we will get increasingly overt fascism, or we make radical changes to fix those conditions. Socialism or barbarism. Maintaining or returning to the status quo is not viable.
don’t get me wrong, i don’t want the status quo back, i just want to feel hopeful for the future again :(
don’t mind me either way tbf, i’m romanticising the past when the world was barely any better than now, i was simply more ignorant of what was going on around me. i’m aware of this, i don’t indulge in that feeing too often, but sometimes i do
Hey. I feel it, too. I’ve been grieving for the last year, especially seeing the atrocities of ICE grabbing people in our street. I really thought Trump was the low point and we’d be able to move forward as a nation and catch up with the rest of the world, especially after the Jan 6th Insurrection.