“Orban has devastated independent media, academia, and institutions of culture, much as Trump has begun to do. But the simulacra of democracy are still in place. Courts still rule, legislators still legislate, and people still go to stores and movies and restaurants. Many corporations do just fine, and so they fall in line with the dictator. We think fascism has to look like Nazi Germany, but it often doesn’t. It can actually look pretty normal.
To be honest, I think this is the most likely result.”
NORMAL? It won’t be “normal life” for the women who by national decree no longer have sovereignty over their own bodies and are trapped in forced-birth hell. Nor for the millions of civil servants left joblesss, the people plunged into another Great Depression when housing, insurance, and stock markets all crash, the gay marriages suddenly outlawed, those harmed by the environmental devastation, the horrific workplace deaths, the widespread food disease outbreaks, the coming pandemic allowed to run wild, the return of huge measles and TB outbreaks, the political dissidents who will be harassed, locked up or worse. Nor for the millions of children denied anything even close to a true education as public schools are censored and defunded. Nor for those affected by the sudden decline in scientific progress, including cancer victims. Nor for the marginalized populations who are set back to 1950s style discrimination. And perhaps most devastating, life will NOT be normal for the millions of people stripped of healthcare coverage and the old, sick, and disabled left to die because of the vicious targeting of “the weak nonnproducerrs,” “parasites,” “leeches,” etc. through attrition and malevolent neglect.
There is no possible scenario in which America descends into full-on fascism and yet most people live “normal” lives. It will be hell on Earth. And whatever it takes to stop it must be brought forward NOW. Not in two years. Not next year. Not in 6 months. NOW.
This is another insightful article, Jay. Namaste. Regarding T's desire to align himself with Napoleon Bonaparte, as a Franco-Corso-American myself, I find that T has a long way to go to be "à la hauteur." Yes, Napoleon succumbed to the blindness of power, but many of his societal programs, such as the Napoleonic code and the secondary education system, are still valid and appreciated in France.
“Orban has devastated independent media, academia, and institutions of culture, much as Trump has begun to do. But the simulacra of democracy are still in place. Courts still rule, legislators still legislate, and people still go to stores and movies and restaurants. Many corporations do just fine, and so they fall in line with the dictator. We think fascism has to look like Nazi Germany, but it often doesn’t. It can actually look pretty normal.
To be honest, I think this is the most likely result.”
NORMAL? It won’t be “normal life” for the women who by national decree no longer have sovereignty over their own bodies and are trapped in forced-birth hell. Nor for the millions of civil servants left joblesss, the people plunged into another Great Depression when housing, insurance, and stock markets all crash, the gay marriages suddenly outlawed, those harmed by the environmental devastation, the horrific workplace deaths, the widespread food disease outbreaks, the coming pandemic allowed to run wild, the return of huge measles and TB outbreaks, the political dissidents who will be harassed, locked up or worse. Nor for the millions of children denied anything even close to a true education as public schools are censored and defunded. Nor for those affected by the sudden decline in scientific progress, including cancer victims. Nor for the marginalized populations who are set back to 1950s style discrimination. And perhaps most devastating, life will NOT be normal for the millions of people stripped of healthcare coverage and the old, sick, and disabled left to die because of the vicious targeting of “the weak nonnproducerrs,” “parasites,” “leeches,” etc. through attrition and malevolent neglect.
There is no possible scenario in which America descends into full-on fascism and yet most people live “normal” lives. It will be hell on Earth. And whatever it takes to stop it must be brought forward NOW. Not in two years. Not next year. Not in 6 months. NOW.
This is another insightful article, Jay. Namaste. Regarding T's desire to align himself with Napoleon Bonaparte, as a Franco-Corso-American myself, I find that T has a long way to go to be "à la hauteur." Yes, Napoleon succumbed to the blindness of power, but many of his societal programs, such as the Napoleonic code and the secondary education system, are still valid and appreciated in France.
Chilling!