"WE hAve The 2nd AmeNdmENT iN cAsE WE WANT to oveRThRow A tYrANNiC goVErNMENt."

I’m trying to figure out a way of explaining it, but it’s multiple factors. These aren’t excuses perse but fall into what I would consider “death by a thousand papercuts”

1. Overall life is still “good” for a lot of people. Does the suck continue to increase? Yes. You notice prices getting higher, so you tighten your belt a little more, but it’s not catastrophic (to you)
2. The masses still have their bread and circuses. There is still entertainment to keep people distracted
3. They’re scared of losing their jobs and being out on the street (this is a big one IMO). The US has no functional safety net, unlike other countries. You lose your job, you lose your medical insurance, you might be able to apply for unemployment but that’s only a fraction of what you made. The job market is so bad it may be a year or more before you find something. Couple that with lack of savings due to high prices and it’s an extremely powerful incentive to keep your head down
4. “It doesn’t affect me” mentality. This is something I see of the American ethos in general and it explains most republican voters. The idea of “rugged individualism” is so ingrained in the American psyche, they don’t understand empathy and don’t care until it happens to them. The US has never gone through a massive attack that affected the whole country (Great Depression is too far gone, and 9/11 was isolated to only part of the county, whereas something like WW2 in Europe affected almost everyone)
5. ICE (the ghestsopo) is started to disappear even US citizens. Get targeted for speaking out and end up in a concentration camp. Another reason to keep your head down.
6. The country is huge. Somewhere like France is only a small fraction of the size of US. So it’s easier to congregate and protest. But the distance from Los Angeles to Washington DC is over 3,600 km away. Trying to figure out how to get that far to protest (especially with items 3 and 5) make logistics hard. There were protests across the country for No Kings, but it was so spread out it was diluted.

I could go on with more reasons but I guess what I’m trying to get it is that it’s a perfect storm of being just comfortable enough, coupled with fear of your own wellbeing that keeps people in line.

You don't understand.

The other option was a woman. A WOMAN.

That's a genuinely tough choice for yanks.

I'm sure you've heard this before, but laws become meaningless when no one will enforce them. This is all happening because the US forefathers did not envision a scenario in which all 3 branches of government would be corrupted in the same way at the same time. Terminal cancer, more or less.

Well, one is that our current best hope is that the midterms go well and with shaky control of maybe a single branch of government we can start to fix things.

There's no good reason anyone wouldn't wait six weeks to see what happens.

There's still a peaceful way to kick him out. In the midterm elections on November 3, the fascists could lose control of both houses of Congress. If that happens, the orange turd is getting impeached as fast as possible. By spring, if there's no hope of stopping him legally, then we consider stopping him illegally.

Oh, I guess we should have just flipped the "overthrow tyranny" switch.

Think about what you're saying for fucks sake.

The laws require the justice system to bring people to trial, and then for appropriate sentences to be handed down and enforced. "Americans" have zero control over the federal judiciary, and little control over state judiciarires, which have slim to zero power to address these national problems.

Ammosexuals are all cowards

"All these laws for this shit", and not one of them actually carries a stated set of consequences for breaking them.