hex on Nostr: I think it's worth reminding everyone that there was probably never a time in US ...

I think it's worth reminding everyone that there was probably never a time in US history when fascism could have been prevented. The US is founded on slavery, genocide, patriarchy, and oligarchy. Oligarchy and patriarchy are literally written into the constitution.

The electoral college is explicitly anti-democratic. The Senate was designed to maintain slavery. The two party system is explicitly built to *prevent* democracy. The drug war was *specifically* created to stop the civil rights movement. The entire country is a blatantly illegal occupation of land where other people already lived, which violates multiple treaties signed with those people. They tried to coup FDR. Even Kennedy was killed by right wing stochastic terrorism. The opportunity to fork is older than any of us.

There was *maybe* a chance to fix this during Reconstruction, and we all know how that went.

No, Joe couldn't have done what's needed to fix things because that would require dismantling his own party. No, voting for Bernie would not have changed anything. They would have just boomerang Allended him during his first week.

The problem is, and has always been, the existence of the US itself.