Insofar as we were a democracy, we will have to look at “us” as one contributing factor, either by ignorance, apathy, decadence, or malice— we’re the problem it’s us. Many of us have been too insulated by our comfort, as long as it didn’t come for is directly…
Also, precisely what Hannah Arendt described as inebriation and torpor inculcated by the strategic disinformation campaign that MAGA has been waging since 2015, befouling the while epistemic ecosystem. Exactly the outcome Arendt predicted the “masses” being manipulated into… @gtconway.bsky.social