@GottaLaff

Thank you ❤️

@GottaLaff Most U.S. folks treat democracy like air. It just "is". It always has been. It may be less clean at times, but it will be there. Honestly, most folks don't even think about air quality.

And, they think of it as something baked into the U.S.A. — i.e., immutable.

Never were taught or realized that it was/is just a fragile set of commonly agreed upon norms.

This is a really suboptimal way to learn that lesson.

@GottaLaff Going to say it because no-one else has: it's internalized whiteness. I don't just mean having white skin, I mean being fully invested in and benefiting from the institutions and societal norms that perpetuate white privilege. Liberals aren't immune.

Not saying they're racist. It's more like the sublime complacency that comes with never having felt *you or your* family are the ones imperiled by an authority. They don't pay attention because they'll always be safe.

Until they aren't.

@GottaLaff The smartest thing the heritage foundation did was to put project 2025 in a 900 page volume, knowing that very few people would bother to read something that massive. Same thing with the Mueller report.

and if you did happen to start reading it, you’d be so horrified after 30 or 40 pages that you’d stop in disgust.

#IgnoranceIsNoExcuse

@GottaLaff I see a lot of arguments about how GOP policies aren't going to work, as though the failures were just a misunderstanding rather than intentionally breaking things.

Nobody misunderstands this much on this consistent a basis and still gets to live as an independent adult. They would have been institutionalized.