Here's the problem: To even turn things back to the way they were 20 years ago would take a President as ruthless and unchallenged as Trump himself. Or a President, House, Senate, SCOTUS and Federal judiciary that would be completely behind that level of reform. Plus a ruthless purging of all the apparatchiks that Trump and his team have ensconced throughout the federal bureaucracy.

Tell me truthfully, do you believe that that will ever happen? Is there any doubt in your mind that if a Democratic Presidential nominee manages to win they will do ANYTHING to roll back the huge surges we've made toward fascism under Presidents from both parties over the last 40 years?

Is there any question that a Democratic president and Congress would just insist that it was time to look forward, not back, and to make sure that we have a nice diverse group of people running ICE, DHS and the border patrol? Maybe a little more diversity among the staff and inmates of the death camps that Trump has built?

If anything, aren't the Democrats likely to pass MORE funding for the military and ICE and DHS? Will they do a single goddamned thing to rein in Israel and it's genocide of Arabs in the Middle East?

If that's all we can expect under the best circumstances from the Democratic Party, why should we settle for that instead of the complete overthrow of the system that the world desperately needs? Under the status quo our extinction due to climate change and the effects of war will just be a little slower. Which hardly seems a kindness.

I await replies.

#Politics #Extinction #Democrats #Fascism

@Quasit

I do believe that this crisis has precipitated an understanding that all institutions, including the Democratic Party, had become corrupt. I personally have come to that understanding after the loss in '24, the consequences of which are every bit as catastrophic as I had feared they'd be. I thought the radical left who wanted to burn it all down were being childish. I was wrong. They were right. And here we are. They were also correct that this process will get us to a better future.

@jawarajabbi @Quasit

So now that the Nazis are hunting down black and brown people you're convinced that the institutions were the problem all along? I don't know what privilege pass you have, but I can assure you the most vulnerable segments in society know the difference.

@HakeemG @Quasit

And? What's your point?