@aral @julieofthespirits @coleenwalter

There's a tricky tipping point, almost invisible.

Somewhere between, "Things are bad but a lot of us are trying to fix this!", which is true, and "Things are basically okay, bad guys aren't normal!" which is the dangerous delusion of enablers.

Bad IS normal and nobody is okay. This is the norm. Look, the planet is burning. ENOUGH of us are like this, and holding enough positions of power, to mean our overall trajectory is dropping fast in the Trump direction. Even when we're dutifully trying to do the whole Dem incremental harm reduction thing, we're still headed for the SAME evils just a bit more slowly and dressed up with a few more comforting lies. Abusers don't just get away with abuse, abuse is propped up and rewarded as good go-getter business sense, and we go along with it if we think it'll score us a few extra treats to ride an abuser's coattails and not rock the boat. I know he's bad but I'm doing the best I can from inside his office, okay so I'm carrying water for a fascist but I'm still a good guy.

The "moderate" liberal gets to pretend they're not part of the problem if they set the bad guys way out at some freakish distance they are not responsible for. They get to pretend that real estate flipping is a perfectly wholesome reasonable vocation, and that calling the cops on that nasty annoying homeless camp is a perfectly wholesome way to protect the neighborhood-- with zero awareness that they're
doing shit like, say, casually talking over the women in the room, singing along to songs about rape, voting for people participating in crimes against humanity, benefitting from exploitative settler colonialism, and upholding capitalism.