General Discussion

reality is grim and unfaceable. Sure, you can't live without hope. It's impossible. But, the OP is not stating, woe is me, save me. It's pointing out the grim reality that fascism has been successful many times in the past, that it lasts a long time, and that almost always, it ends in violence. We have the honor of a form of fascism that has been applied for the first time to our unique country. OP clearly stated that we may be able to defeat the Orange Regime, therefore, and kick them out the door. The thing I really liked about the post was the analysis of solutions offered as possibilities to end this crap.

We are beginning to wake up. The biggest blow we have absorbed was from the Roberts Court where rump was immunized from consequences. While you don't always agree with their conclusions, in the past we have had decisions that at least were not devastating. Now, we have a Court whose decisions are predictible and fall along that dividing line. 6 - 3 in favor of rump. Shouldn't be that way.

I agree with the OP. The military is the deciding factor. I think that everything we are doing now is helpful to slow the takeover down. We can't stop doing it. And there are things we can add, like the entire country stopping in protest.

I think that it is helpful to wake people up to what is happening. We're a good people and maybe we can stop it, but the solutions are going to lie in the examples that have happened before. It IS deadly sad that a minority of people actually want to live under the thumb of a dictator, and are willing to inflict this strange desire on other people as well.