shlaifu wrote:
if it's any help, I've been afraid of the US since tge Patriot act was put in place. It was the first time for as young adult to really realize that the 90s are over and history in 21st century will be different. Not 9/11 - wars and atrocities happen all the time - but the change from freedom to national security as the excuse to push through surveillance laws that would have had no chance without fear and propaganda.
But I actially don't think the US is going tear itself up.I think this awful state of hysteria is going to go on, because there really aren't two warring factions at a national level. The majority of Republicans and Democrats are neoliberals with superficial disagreements.
The Trump movement will keepbexisting, and so will the Bernie Sanders movement. But the neoliberal leadership will pretend there's a war and they're the only adults. *Unless* there's a major banking crisis, again. Then all bets are off.
Meh, it's not really very comforting. But maybe you're right about that being the actual situation in our country.
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