Nah, no worries, it didn’t read as rude.

It’s the whole slow immersion thing. Two years ago, people talking about how dangerous this could be were banned from some places online.

Now, you’ve got some of the less complacent arming themselves the way those of us a bit more pessimistic in our outlook did years ago.

But, being real, people have been saying for decades that what the nazis did couldn’t happen again. But pretty much every major power in the world still had some degree of power madness that got directed against the weakest, the poorest, the most vulnerable. Germany, that saw it first hand, isn’t immune to it, there’s a far right party there that’s just barely restraining themselves from goose stepping and heil-ing.

Here in the US? We were built on taking other people and demolishing them. For all the good that the constitution represents, it was written by the same kind of people that owned slaves.

We’ve had what amounts to concentration camps for over a decade, though you’ll hear people say they aren’t concentration camps because there’s no executions going on. Hell, our prisons amount to concentration camps what with the way they treat the people in them.

So, it’ll take a lot more than what’s going on. The people alive today didn’t pay attention to history, or want the status quo to return so badly that they’ll accept the fascism until it’s too late.

Seriously, it isn’t just the US, the remnants of fascism never went away. But, here in the US, we pretended like there weren’t nazis here. And we rode that post war wave of wealth into a capitalist hellscape that leaves so many people so unable to do anything but work and lose hope that they just want things to blow over rather than fight even harder.

So, it’s going to come down to a very small amount of us trying to turn things around, and we’ll probably fail.