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This situation will not be fixed until we actually restructure some things in our institutions and culture. We will be facing critical elections until that happens... or until the fascists win. After that you won't have to worry about winning elections anymore.

And if the fascists are smart enough to slow roll THEIR changes (so as to not introduce a major shock), people will put up with it for a long time and a lot of open oppression won't be needed. You can see that just by looking around at the current regimes and the historical ones. It will outlast my lifetime.

But I doubt that they will be THAT smart, so they will end up resorting to the open oppression.

Changing the culture will be the work of generations and it will be fought tooth and nail all the way. The major fight now (for most of the MAGAts/reactionaries) is the culture fight. Everything else is in support of either that or of the plutocrats/oligarchs cementing their wealth and power.

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