I guess its going to be super violent because the Americans will not bend a knee for Trump regime.

It's the ones who understand it that are the objects of the violence. Putin and Stalin remain popular in Russia, although they are murderers and terrorists.

the ones who understand what?

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The people voting for authoritarianism want 'other' people to submit. They don't have the imagination to wonder what they will have to accept.

it takes a lot of indoctrination and a lot of material rewards in order for people to have any reason to accept this bullshit so it works much better on the people at the top than it does on the people at the bottom

surface compliance may be gained temporarily with the threat of punishment but it will be resented

it is assumed that escalating the level of punishment will make people more desperate for the reward of approval from and acceptance into the privileged elite but it doesn't it makes the promise of that reward both less believable and less appealing

i think one of the hopes of liberal 'representation' politics is that people will see that someone from the same marginalised group as them is buying into it and believe that they can and therefore should get that for themselves too

I think some people are easily led to it www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/psyc...

this is doing the thing it's criticising invoking a myth of a past golden age of unity that's been broken by the presence of diversity

A past golden age that only existed in the Bright White television shows of the 1950s and 60s, but is now remembered as the ideal life.

It’s the toxic masculine in power. The only thing that stops them is violence—and prison.

the carceral state cannot defeat the carceral state

True. I am suggesting the resistance (by violence if need be) and a functioning justice system hold authoritarianism accountable like the Nuremberg trials.

"The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear."

Thank you very much for saying this. Fear and suffering are always terrible as motivators. The Declaration of Independence included reference to the “pursuit of happiness,” because that is the “natural” and most effective motivation. The Latin word for it is concupiscere. bsky.app/profile/will...