cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/questions/p/1235213/how-do-you-keep-yourself-sane-and-happy-while-1-right-wing-fascists-are-getting-powerful
How the fuck do people don’t get radical or depressed?
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Right wing fascists are losing steam in the US, so there’s that.
Yeah, thought that in 2024.
Oops.
Let me know when it actually manifests into reality, accountability, and jail times.
You’ll have to check back after the midterms.
I have serious doubts that even with a “blue wave” the fuckass Dems will actually DO anything useful.
That’s what primaries are for. Vote for the Dems who will.
If you contribute to making it happen you won’t need anyone to clue you in when it does.
But on the other hand centrist elites have displayed nearly zero will to resist the fascist consolidation of power, so I wouldn’t count on this trend translating into a long-term decline. I’m betting on a fascist coup around the midterms and little to no effective popular response, but even if that doesn’t happen the fascists are gonna come back in 2032 unless something fundamentally changes.
What kind of midterm coup are we talking and how will it be implemented?
Have you signed up to be a poll worker yet? Are you running for something? Are you organizing for your candidates if you’re not running? What else is your plan besides voting, if you plan to vote at all?
I mean, really anything from putting ICE in polling stations to arresting Enemies of the State™ to manufacturing a crisis and using the Insurrection Act. It’s Netanyahu syndrome; if Trump is ever out of power he might actually get thrown in jail for his various crimes, and of course he wants absolute power and this is his last chance to get it. Therefore the question is who or what will stop him, and you’ve seen how the non-far right political leadership has been these last two years. Now my point isn’t that it’s all hopeless and there’s no point in trying, but that the mode and intensity of trying will have to rise up a few notches for the whole protecting democracy thing to work.
Does being born on the other side of the world count?
Ahm…where did you get that?
Trump’s approval rating is at an all time low.
Democrats are ahead in every kind of generic polling and midterms will be a disaster for Republicans.
Trump is so unpopular even within his own party that he can’t get legislation like the SAVE act through.
Federal courts have been blocking and reversing this administration’s actions left and right.
Democrats have flipped hundreds of R seats at all levels of government since 2024, Republicans have flipped one or two.
Democratic Socialists, riding on the success and popularity of Mamdani, have gained a lot of steam and won several elections and we’re seeing probably the biggest wave of socialism ever in the US.
Thanks. I don’t know exactly what all that amounts to being from overseas, but if Hungary can oust Orbán then I hope the same is possible in the US. My only concern is that in spite of Trumps low rating, those people might still want MAGA, just with a different face/diaper.
Midterm polling seems to favour Democrats over Republicans.
I think it’s more a generic cost of living rising that punishes whoever is in charge rather than disliking any authoritarian policies that drives the polling numbers.