Things are getting pretty divided, but I don't know if we're going to have an actual civil war or anything like that. Not unless there's tremendous change, anyway.
As of now, a lot of the right wing extremism, especially the mainstream extremism, is fueled by right wing media like OAN and Faux News and Newsmax. Thing is, they get their talking points from the billionaires who fund them and they're only funding them to increase their own wealth. A civil war would cost them a lot of money and the second their own financial well being is threatened, they're going to change their talking points.
But.... the US is already on the decline because of those scumbags and media is getting more global now and less local. Before they needed the US because that was where they lived and where most of their business was but things are getting more and more global and a lot of them are needing the US less and less. If they're pushing right wing extremism in the UK or Canada or wherever they want to live after the US is useless to them, what's going to happen to the remaining Americans picking up far right propoganda aimed at Canadians? Or what happens when they inspire genuinely far right media that sincerely believes in fascism and all that?
I'm personally scared, too. Because I'm a transgender atheist living in Oklahoma and I already know that, if this state leaves the union and doesn't have to follow the rulings of the supreme court anymore, I'm in danger. I really hate that I'm having to have thoughts in the back of my mind planning where and how I'm moving when shit goes down, but under the circumstances I feel like it's necessary.
As of now, a lot of the right wing extremism, especially the mainstream extremism, is fueled by right wing media like OAN and Faux News and Newsmax. Thing is, they get their talking points from the billionaires who fund them and they're only funding them to increase their own wealth. A civil war would cost them a lot of money and the second their own financial well being is threatened, they're going to change their talking points.
But.... the US is already on the decline because of those scumbags and media is getting more global now and less local. Before they needed the US because that was where they lived and where most of their business was but things are getting more and more global and a lot of them are needing the US less and less. If they're pushing right wing extremism in the UK or Canada or wherever they want to live after the US is useless to them, what's going to happen to the remaining Americans picking up far right propoganda aimed at Canadians? Or what happens when they inspire genuinely far right media that sincerely believes in fascism and all that?
I'm personally scared, too. Because I'm a transgender atheist living in Oklahoma and I already know that, if this state leaves the union and doesn't have to follow the rulings of the supreme court anymore, I'm in danger. I really hate that I'm having to have thoughts in the back of my mind planning where and how I'm moving when shit goes down, but under the circumstances I feel like it's necessary.
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"If you cling to something as the absolute truth and you are caught in it, when the truth comes in person to knock on your door you will refuse to let it in." ~ Siddhartha Gautama
"If you cling to something as the absolute truth and you are caught in it, when the truth comes in person to knock on your door you will refuse to let it in." ~ Siddhartha Gautama
