Alyx Hinata 🇹🇩🚫:unverified:💀 (nprofile…v27d) I don't know what discussion you've been through, but I feel the sentiment. As someone who lived my first 20 years under a soviet-inspired national socialism dictatorship, where kids at school wore military uniforms, and secret police can make you and your family disappear at night if you say one wrong thing, I find the discourse in the US absolutely ridiculous. All sides are escalating endlessly out of /fear/; they attribute the maximum emotional response to the smallest acts of their opposition, and use that to justify even bigger responses from their side, in a vicious, ridiculous, cycle.
It keeps going no matter what side has the power, and no matter what "$current_crisis" is. It feels like the entire society collectively has a severe case of "calibration out of wack" to what evil really looks like, so they think every resistance they face in getting what they want is "real evil". The entire country is having a continuous panic attack, and no one at the leadership level has the incentive to stop it, because if they try to stop the panic first, their opponents would "win". Heck, even the good old trick, of having your entire people focus on an external dangerous unifying enemy monster, doesn't seem to work anymore in the US. Maybe it was used one too many times and people grew a tolerance.
I have my suspicion, and fear, that democracy, anywhere and everywhere, will eventually implode unless making people intentionally anxious and afraid, for views or votes or power of any kind, fraudulently, becomes an outdated strategy that doesn't work from a game theory perspective. How that can be achieved, I don't know. Fear after all is one of the oldest and most powerful motivators of humans, to act together, since time immemorial.
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