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How do you keep yourself sane and happy while 1) Right wing fascists are getting powerful 2) women rights are getting weaker 3) Inequalities are raising? (europe.pub)
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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/questions/p/1235213/how-do-you-keep-yourself-sane-and-happy-while-1-right-wing-fascists-are-getting-powerful

How the fuck do people don't get radical or depressed?

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How do you keep yourself sane and happy while 1) Right wing fascists are getting powerful 2) women rights are getting weaker 3) Inequalities are raising?
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[–] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

But on the other hand centrist elites have displayed nearly zero will to resist the fascist consolidation of power, so I wouldn't count on this trend translating into a long-term decline. I'm betting on a fascist coup around the midterms and little to no effective popular response, but even if that doesn't happen the fascists are gonna come back in 2032 unless something fundamentally changes.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 child)

    What kind of midterm coup are we talking and how will it be implemented?

    Have you signed up to be a poll worker yet? Are you running for something? Are you organizing for your candidates if you're not running? What else is your plan besides voting, if you plan to vote at all?

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    What kind of midterm coup are we talking and how will it be implemented?

    I mean, really anything from putting ICE in polling stations to arresting Enemies of the State™ to manufacturing a crisis and using the Insurrection Act. It's Netanyahu syndrome; if Trump is ever out of power he might actually get thrown in jail for his various crimes, and of course he wants absolute power and this is his last chance to get it. Therefore the question is who or what will stop him, and you've seen how the non-far right political leadership has been these last two years. Now my point isn't that it's all hopeless and there's no point in trying, but that the mode and intensity of trying will have to rise up a few notches for the whole protecting democracy thing to work.

    Have you signed up to be a poll worker yet? Are you running for something? Are you organizing for your candidates if you're not running? What else is your plan besides voting, if you plan to vote at all?

    Does being born on the other side of the world count?

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