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I was saying this as soon as it became clear more people voted for him in 2020 than in 2016. This was after hundreds of thousands were dead from COVID, the George Floyd protests, and all his other BULLSHIT.
I don’t want violence or a civil war but you do not defeat authoritarians/fascists with ideas. They only understand one thing: force.
The best we can hope for is that Trump and his sycophants hurt enough of their own cult for them to wake up but I think they’re in too deep.
I'm fine with letting them have whatever they have so long as they let the rest of us secede. America is proven to be a failure and liberal minded people are no longer represented. If they want to fight us a la civil war to force us to stay in I'm willing to shed blood, but it would be better for everyone if they just let the country go it's separate ways.
Maybe crashing the stock market for 2.000 Billions in just a month could help a little there?
It will have to be bad for months for it to even register for some people. The billionaires just see this as temporary. The cult thinks groceries are going to magically cost less one day.