U.S. historian Robert Kagan: "We are watching a country fall under dictatorship almost without resistance"

https://lemmy.world/post/43370314

U.S. historian Robert Kagan: "We are watching a country fall under dictatorship almost without resistance" - Lemmy.World

The Cold War? Child’s play compared to what lies ahead, according to U.S. historian Robert Kagan. Trump, he says, is leading the world into the most dangerous era since 1945.

I’ve mentioned this before to others whenever this comes up. most or a great majority of people in the US have it “good enough” to not “risk it all”.

Things over here “aren’t bad enough” for people to full-on revolt. I’d say we’re kinda close but modern, white, boring america just doesn’t want to get caught in the shit storm. They understand it might come for them at some point but that time isn’t now so why “stick their neck out”

Absolutely. I’m very aware of my “white privilege”.

I vote. I’ve protested and will again.

Yet, I’m going away for long weekends and I have a very big vacation coming in 2 months. I’m sure many people find that selfish and offensive. However, I consider it my personal survival technique.

Best of luck to everyone.

I vote it more as I might as well spend my money while it still has buying power.
Oh, I am… My GF and I are logging at least one day of OT per week to pay for that big vacation. I’ll be @ 54 hrs this week by end of today’s shift. And my company pays “critical staffing” bonus of $10/hr on top of my 1.5X OT rate.