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Yes, this could end badly, and if it does, I will leave the US... but not just yet. The deindustrialization of the nation has set the stage for fascism to flourish here. Christo-fascists have joined forces with political fascists to form an unholy juggernaut. We have to keep fighting these dark forces.
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Yes, this could end badly, and if it does, I will leave the US... but not just yet. The deindustrialization of the nation has set the stage for fascism to flourish here. Christo-fascists have joined forces with political fascists to form an unholy juggernaut. We have to keep fighting these dark forces.
You are lucky then. To have the choice to leave. I don’t have the choice. I can report that knowing this, knowing I will be stuck here in the hell that the RFP will create already affects my mental and physical health. That negative effect has to be so much worse for all the groups that the RFP is already gleefully tormenting and intending to erase.
Every day be proactive and listen, talk and spread the education to others. You will be helping the cause and you will feel better too. We seek to change the moderates. We are the silent majority.
"Do the hardest thing. Activism is the antidote to despair." -- Beto O'Rourke, in Texas, after Ulvalde.
The possiblity of something happening is not a guarantee that it will.
Of course. Wishing you well.