RE: Having A Time In The Cold White Hell
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It felt like we were inching towards that in 2020, then most folks just went home and went back to pretending we were back to 'normal'.
It's like the Democrats gave up on the working class in the 90s, ceded the rural areas to the GOP just as they were doubling down on the religion and tacking hard to the right. The public portrayal of this country is like the American Dream, as George Carlin said, "you gotta be asleep to believe it." For millennials like me, we got to watch three thousand people die on live TV in middle/high school, and then nothing ever got better. I think it's telling that both Good and Pretti were millennials, there's a generational rage there that's only just beginning to find expression.
It's very easy to make poor people hate each other
Amen. Pretty sure that's the story of this country in one sentence. Lol, if there's any consolation in all that's happening, it's that the regime is going at this in a fashion that is almost guaranteed to make sure it isn't enduring. If it didn't have a succession problem it would have a coup problem.
Was telling my partner about what you said last night, 10 years seems like a long time for that kind of intensity, but at the same time it tracks with much of the resistance struggles I've studied, also about how long it this place to throw off the British yoke. In 2020, it was slightly reassuring that there wasn't really much in the way of organized paramilitaries for the regime to call upon to repress people, but now we've got the secret police nobody asked for...
Although your villains are cartoonish in many ways, it won't be easy to get rid of them. I can't see them allowing midterms, they are now even more in the position of needing to stay in power to stay out of jail. It will actually take decades to undo the damage
Oh yeah, I'm just thankful they're not more competent. Midterms will be the Rubicon, no? Honestly, I think they're more likely to go the rigging route than outright not having them, that'd be too easy of a point to rally resistance around. This country still managed elections amidst a civil war, world wars, and pandemics, so any attempt to justify canceling midterms is going to ring hollow, and besides, there's such a long history of voter suppression here for them to lean on. Decades, or longer, which seems all too appropriate coming on the 250th anniversary of this country.
Voter suppression and rigging will be the chosen route. That's how the Afrikaner nationalists came to power here: voting was gerrymandered until the rural vote carried more weight than the city vote