“The United States, just months before its 250th birthday as the world’s leading democracy, has tipped over the edge into authoritarianism and fascism,” Garrett Graff, the American historian and author, wrote in August. “In the end, faster than I imagined possible, it did happen here.”

One awakes to new horrors each day. And it is difficult to grasp – and painful to realize – just how far gone we are, and how quickly it has happened.

  • ElectricWaterfall@lemmy.zip
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    8 hours ago

    I haven’t made it that far with him yet, I think he would still say trump. But I’ve changed his mind on single payer healthcare, started opening his eyes to what ice is really doing (he doesn’t like it), started opening his eyes to what trump is doing internationally continuing wars, threatening other countries, war mongering etc.

    It’s slow progress but I am changing some of his opinions.

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      4 hours ago

      I wish you good fortune in the wars to come. I have a couple family I talk to when I can. They pretty much lost faith with the maga cause but not picking up any other so it doesn’t help as much.