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The reaction of these people to a senator traveling to another country to try to correct their admitted mistake is fucking disgusting.
I feel like the US is really not getting the memo here, this is fascist dictatorship swaddled in an American flag. This is what dictators do, the next steps are dismantling the other institutions and agencies that could potentially preserve the old country's rules and laws. As they are already doing blatantly.
Guys... the US is falling. Why aren't people organizing?
We have been. You may have heard of the 50501 protests. If not, I recommend looking into it. There are two problems though. First, the corporate media is largely not covering the protests because they haven't turned into riots. As the adage goes, "if it bleeds, it leads". Second, Americans are generally not inclined to riot, because our police are more heavily armed than a lot of military forces around the world. When we do riot, the corporate media clutches their pearls and wags their fingers, painting the entire movement as a bunch of criminals looking for a reason to loot. This influences even our most ardent allies in Congress to distance themselves from the movement, resulting in little to no change in policies.
Honestly, it's going to take a lot more than protests and even riots to get out of this, if it's even possible.
Their entire world view is based on a thick stack of lies. It's lies all the way down.