We’re at the authoritarian tipping point, where the key systems meant to keep democracy in check are being controlled by one side, for example, SCOTUS. Restoring democracy becomes almost impossible w/out a major systemic shock. It’s moving faster than most people realize & it's becoming too late.
We’re way past the tipping point. Our government is full on authoritarian now. trumps planning on using National Guard troops in DC next week to support the police. This despite the fact that crime rates are down. He wants to use DC as a test bed. And it’s HIGHLY ILLEGAL.
I agree with you, Jason. Unless something very big can happen very soon, the country and democracy we love, will be gone. It is to weep.
Respectfully, it was too late in January.
It may already be too late
Major shock incoming I predict
Indeed it is. I’ve read On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder and many other books on fascism. Their plan was 50 years in the making; the Confederate oligarchs have captured the trifecta plus SCOTUS and are having a field day slicing up the New Deal. But federalism is messy; violence is on the horizon.
No f ing way. He's losing ground daily because of our efforts. Watch him crumble.
Until we see the country divided by pro- vs anti-Regime supporters rather than MAGA GOP vs Dems or red vs blue states we won't overpower them. There has be a concerted effort to end purity tests and recruit everyone who opposes the Regime, regardless of their reason or history
It's too late for Trump... The longer he stays, it increases the likelihood of violence.
Sadly, I think we went past the tipping point. We are probably at the the point where restoration of democracy will require a destruction of the Federal system of government. A complete reboot. Hollywood couldn’t come up with a more dystopian hellscape plot if they tried.
The major shock may be a General Strike.
It’s already too late.
Revolution. But it needs a spark.
Well it's not like the media is informing people. They won't know until someone is dragging them off to a camp, for whatever.
If the media won't tell people, the people have to. Talk to your neighbors?
If you are very lucky, you have a few more months of opportunity. After that, you will need a system shock and a new constitution.
You're not just warning us, you're giving us a countdown. How's that for a civic responsibility, knowing we're running out of time to course-correct?
I feel the same way!
I'm now a pessimist. I think we are beyond the tipping point. It is happening.
My hope is the understanding that that shock IS coming. Imagine if inflation hits 5% and Trump appoints a Fed Chair who cuts interest rates. 20% inflation and 20% unemployment might be the shock we need.
“No god can stop a hungry man.” When the working & middle classes start to lose their housing & go to bed hungry, they will fight. But likely not b4 that. I hope it’s not too late.
I too feel this. I believe it to be true.
November of this year could be the system’s zero day.
You could easily argue Congress as well, that’s why they are so worried about 2026.
Want to gain ground mass protesting in DC everyone is like no that will bring about Martial Law Then pull a South Korea The Constitution Our Constitution is being shredded We have zero allies If this isn’t a fucking break glass moment then idk. White Americans no relax they can’t do that
Trump announced that DC will be under martial law as of Monday.
source?
Trump on Truth Social. He posted yesterday that he is announcing formally this Monday that he's taking command of DC. He intends to usurp the Capitol police and put the National Guard and bring in the Marines. His rationale is he claims it's one of the most "dangerous cities in the world."
He isn’t wrong there is a 34x convicted felony, a rapist, a thief, an insurrectionist, a treasonous Pedotus squatting in our house so yes he isn’t wrong
Good luck motivating the white population into any action. I have been screaming this from the roof tops. I have been told to relax they can’t do that. As they do just that, the white population they have their heads buried… Good fucking Luck 🍀
That really is a good point, the White population still believes they are untouchable, it's so frustrating
The road to Fascism is lined with people telling you to stop overreacting.
The road to fascism is lined with people who support fascism.
That too. The only way to defeat Fascists, totalitarians and fanatics is to fight and kill them. It's an unpleasant reality, but history shows us repeatedly that this is true.
As a brown citizen good luck crackers. He wants us dead. He has made that clear
So what do you propose? Roll over and give up? I don't consider that an option. So fighting is the only way out.
What do I suggest, or is that directed at the group? Not being an ass, I just want verification. By the way I would give Pedotus testicles for an edit button…never mind Putin has them sitting on his desk.
We are now living in a fascist state and sinking deeper into it every day. We don’t have until midterms
What do you mean, “becoming”? It’s been too late for months now. Wake up!
You have passed the tipping point, America is now a police state.
Project 25 is 47% complete. Vance, Musk, & Thiel are followers of Dark Enlightenment (NRx) which is antidemocratic. Thiel was Vance's boss and funds him, and Curtis Yarvin. Pay attention to Thiel 's Palantir given $913 million in government contracts. share.google/NnNANBOFzySM...
I feel this post deeply. It’s going to be exponentially harder the longer we wait. I don’t understand why strikes aren’t happening, why sporting events aren’t being boycotted, why people aren’t marching…
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It’s painful how deep I feel this too. JFC
People are protesting but the media is complicit.
Protests have never stopped a single Nazi.
I can barely function watching people go about a normal day while the sky is falling…
If you have not already, join a local grassroots organization like an Indivisible chapter. You can find them at Indivisible.org. And start recruiting folks to join in the resistence. See nokings.org onemillionrising.
The question is will we; A. Bend the knee B. Have another Civil War C. Have another Revolution D. Pull it out via justice & legislative branches
Normalcy bias suggests A is the likely outcome. It doesn’t mean the end of the USA, but it does mean the end of the Great American Experiment.
Yes, electric shock would work!!! (If you know what I mean!!)
I feel like we've already passed the tipping point. I don't know how we get back with so many powerful people, both in and out of government, working against us.
Vive la Revolution!
Let’s call on Judge Luttig for help with Robert’s and his court. We must have our courts remain strong. So far, they’re slipping on the job.
I shudder to think what the systemic shock will need to look like
Very true. Those of us aware remain powerless to do anything due to the complacency of many.
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We've crossed the tipping point.
Agree.
I don't think we can do much because Dems have their thumbs up their ass. I have a feeling if this shit isn't nipped soon, we may have violent protests in the future.
What do you think they could do that they're not doing? Dems with their thumbs up their ass isn't the problem. It's Republicans with their heads up their ass. They're going to have to grow spines if we have any hope at all.
Honestly they had until he was elected to start doing something. Once they got ahold of P2025, what did states do to protect themselves? Everyone knew what was going to happen and sat there and let it happen.
do you think seeing theGestapo in action and scientific research being decimated and the economy crashing will prompt a change in attitude?
That’s exactly my point, it shouldn’t have to get that far. When P2025 was made public, that was the time to act. Waiting for authoritarian crackdowns and economic collapse isn’t leadership, it’s negligence.
In any given catastrophe, the people who could have prevented it chose not to act, believing it would never be as bad as it turned out. Pick any one: Baltimore Key Bridge Collapse, Texas flash floods, any mass shooting... When they do, people say it wasn't necessary en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prepare...
The Preparedness Paradox is about how successful prevention makes people think the risk was never serious not random accidents like the Key Bridge collapse.
That event was a freak mechanical failure, not a failure to prepare for a known, avoidable threat. Preparedness paradox: part of it is about action preventing disaster, not predicting the unforeseeable.
Unlike flash floods in Texas, where delayed action, ignored warnings, and lack of sirens turned an avoidable disaster worse… the Preparedness Paradox is about ignoring risks because we prevented them, not about ignoring floods in “Flash Flood Alley.”
Basically, it's all about what you believe can happen. If you deny it, you take no action. You do have to foresee the future to some degree, in order to prevent catastrophe. For me, it wasn't Trump's actions that were most concerning. It was his enablers ignoring all constraints.
May 9th, 1980, Tampa's Sunshine Skyway Bridge (#6) collapsed in response to being hit by a freighter that lost control... Authorities for the Key Bridge knew the risks, and the preventive measures... just didn't believe it would ever happen again. www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/epic-enginee... 1/2
We learned some of the history of Hitler's rise to power in 1933. Plenty of people could have derailed this sequence of events, but they were blind to it. Not enough of the right people see what's happening right now before their very eyes and still can't connect the dots. 2/2
No no no! we have passed the tipping point! This calls for s. Korea intervention not waiting for the next election I agree w/everything else
I think we are already there.
Anyone who knows anything about history knows it’s too late. Hitler destroyed democracy in less time. When I saw nobody doing anything in NOVEMBER I sold my business and moved out of the country by beginning of February. Resistance should have been the moment he won.
We left, too.
Creating "Hall of Shame" but struggling with rankings. Worst? Mitch McConnell John Roberts Clarence Thomas Samuel Alito Neil Gorsuch Brett Kavanaugh Amy Coney-Barrett Kevin McCarthy Paul Ryan Lindsey Graham Stephen Miller Steve Bannon Donald Trump Vladimir Putin ... It's a long, long list.
A worthy list. The trouble is none of those people feel shame. Or at least not for the reasons they should.
I'm not so sure, TBH. But having it engraved in stone, prominently displayed (in the Nation's Capital?) would be a reminder to all the rest of us...
Yes, someone please …
I am hoping it is not too late, but I do not see that major systemic shock in our future.
We are already there, Jason. The shocks will be subsequent consequential SCOTUS rulings and the 2026 elections.
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It’s almost very late at this point… the plate has been shattered, all that remains would be a patch if that’s even possible.
We need more action, a lot more. We need more protests, more calls and more letters. I have a completely free substack with ideas of businesses to write. Try the below for more ideas redwine.blue/troublenation/ indivisible.org www.mobilize.us open.substack.com/pub/americaw...
I believe there's an underground movement happening. There has to be. A lot of knowledge out there in the masses and I just feel like something's brewing beneath the surface. I think the Trump administration also has things "planned", but they're more reactionary right now because of Epstein.
Why not a general strike?
I'd love to see that. LOVE. But getting everyone on the same page is tough. At this point though, we need to do what we can. . .
There are not enough alarm bells going off.
The "Un-Supreme"Court can not be counted on.
Way past the tipping point now. You Americans are going to have to wait until Trump and the ringleaders behind all this (Heritage, ICE, Russ Vought, Musk) gather in one spot again, then make a real move. There'll be chaos after- but MAGA should still be easier to deal with.
We could throw them out of DC. It might lead to the bust up of the country, but we should try throwing them out first. It would take 1-2 million people interested in preserving the Constitution to show up in DC, fill the streets & stay there until we oust the regime. We could start at any time.
Exactly—once feedback systems are captured, collapse accelerates. Fascism thrives by denying that collapse, freezing identity, and silencing alarms. Without facing it head-on, we won’t get reform—we’ll get brittle structures waiting to shatter.
We’re there, wake up American. One of our biggest flaws is desensitization— things that are wrong are normalized. Gun violence , authoritarianism, loss of body autonomy .
Peaceful mass action has toppled tyrants before. A nationwide strike could be the turning point.
I can smell Revolution in the Air!
Take them all out. Taking back our democracy by force is going to be necessary.
It’s moving like lightning speed
Action?
I think it's already too late. The only way to stop them now is to fight. For real. Actual combat.
Spot on. The LAW zone is flooded.
When Sec Def is posting a guy talking about taking the right to vote from women yeah...we are in danger.
Trump controls the levers of government. The cornerstone of his plan is the Supreme Court. Unless courts stop him there is no coming back from where he is taking us. And the High Court right now, is high or drunk, or out of their minds because they act like this is just another day in paradise.
Nope. SCOTUS is holding open the gates of hell for us ….,
They're about to take the vote off women. And anyone declared mentally unfit, and they're deciding who is mentally unfit. There has been a landslide. There is no way back.
The solution is not going to be pretty by any stretch of the imagination. If it's not too late for a solution already.
They have crossed a point of no return. They have to go total control. How to do it without rousing the masses is what we are seeing. Still time, but not much. We need help. Be better for the world to help sooner than later. Paralyze everything.
Trump is the puppet and Project2025 is the master! I STRONGLY suggest to anyone who wants toREALLY understand what is happening to go toPROJECT 2025 TRACKER.Last week they they had reached 42%of their goals now its46%.Kevin Roberts said"the second Revolution can be Bloodless IF THE LEFT ALLOWS IT.."
It’s going down in Texas. Abbott is OPENLY embracing White Nationalist Fascism. Federal secret police ethnically cleansing hispanic communities? Them’s fighting words. The FBI WILL escort a Democrat back to Texas. Because lawless white nationalist Dictators Trump and Abbott ordered it.
Jason I think we’ve not only tipped, but toppled headlong into authoritarian rule, working toward full fledged fascism.
There is no reason why they’re acting this way except to insight a fkin war. I remember this guy pretty much said they’ll do anything they want and as long as we don’t fight, there will be no blood. We cannot continue to live like this. www.politico.com/news/2024/07...
Most Americans have not yet been inconvenienced enough to be concerned about the loss of our basic rights. More than half of the population is woefully uninformed and quite a few just don't want to know ! A slowly crashing economy combined with restrictions on voting may get their attention.
I sure as hell hope so!
The slumbering bear has only begun to be aroused …
This is how I feel too. Our founders didn’t count on a complete betrayal of the constitution by one whole party and all its elected leaders from House, Senate, DOJ, FBI, SCOTUS and all advisors. They were counting on leaders with honor and integrity. Democracy if WE can keep it.
I fear we've already past that point but we haven't realized it yet. The final nail in the coffin is going to shock a lot of people
Yes it will. And it will happen quickly.
I fear not enough young are interested, not enough boomers or Gen z are worried. I feel like humans need to be on the brink of disaster before they care. We have not evolved enough to be true social animals. Greed, power, and control rules. Maybe that is the animal within us.
The collapse of the US economy will be a shock. The low to mid earners will revolt en masse.
Epstein is a symptom. MAGA are in favor of child rape, they are not in favor of high grocery prices.
If the courts fail, it will be up to the people to keep the Democracy, the one too many have taken for granted for so long and may lose, unless the people protest .
Someone needs to blackmail SCOTUS
And with every day, the amount of force its going to take to claw back democracy increases. And yes, I mean physical force.
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It’s becoming increasingly clear: people need to reckon with how bad it has to get and how far they’re willing to go. Rubber will meet the road despite the dem’s resistance to the hard truth.
it's never too late. because we all have to die and they will all will die.
System shock - NATO forces
Why are people hedging with "tipping point" when the current administration has already established fascism in America?
