You had one job America. Don't vote for the proven crook. The convicted criminal. The adjudicated rapist. The twice impeached felon who already failed at the job once before, spectacularly.
Do you want to repeat 2020? Because this is how you get a repeat of 2020!
*sigh*
Well, you decided to touch the hot stove and now you are going to get burned, again.
America entered a post-truth society in 2016, when half of America embraced "alternative facts", formerly known as lies. Because of this, we can no longer agree on basic truths, such as January 6th 2021 being a shameful attack on the Capitol or the planet Earth being round. This allowed the Big Lie about the 2020 election to not only survive, but flourish on cable news. Fear-driven social media algorithms drove millions of Americans into the clutches of conservative media for easy answers and a convenient enemy to blame, immigrants.
Conservative media used to be confined to Fox News and Rush Limbaugh, but today it is an entire ecosystem of hyper-partisan biased media, including OAN, Newsmax, America First Network, Joe Rogan, Twitter, Truth social, Rumble, etc. These content creators then fill entire social media feeds with opinion posing as news.
The fact is, people now live in bubbles of self-reinforcing opinions posing as information, through social media algorithms designed to create fear and anger to drive engagement. These are bubbles that we create ourselves through what we like and what we engage with on social media sites. We end up being shown only what we want to see and not shown information we don't want to see. By design.
The abandonment of truth that happened in 2016 made the return of a convicted felon to the White House possible in 2024. Now, after the supreme court has handed the returning Felon a black check of legal immunity, we are going to see it abused in ways Joe Biden said were "unthinkable".
America is now entering a post-rule-of-law society.
In a climate where truth is disposable, democracy suffers. When citizens are fed a steady diet of disinformation tailored to their biases, trust in democratic institutions erodes. Faith in the judiciary, the electoral process, and even basic scientific facts has been warped, leaving the public vulnerable to manipulation. This cultivated mistrust isn’t just a byproduct of biased media; it’s a deliberate strategy. Powerful figures benefit when we can no longer distinguish between fact and fiction, and this erosion of a shared reality paves the way for authoritarian rule.
By elevating a figure whose transgressions are on public record, we risk normalizing corruption at the highest levels. We are no longer dealing with mere partisanship but a reshaping of the country's moral and legal boundaries. The implications of a leader who sees himself above the law extend far beyond his term, affecting generations to come. In this environment, with truth and justice as mere collateral damage, the real danger lies in our collective apathy, our willingness to look away as long as our personal realities feel undisturbed.
It is too late to save America or stop a Felon from taking office. Voldemort has seized the government. It is time to organize the Order of the Pheonix. The best we can do now is come together with our like minded neighbors and try to save our little pieces of America. Look out for one another. Try to create safe spaces.
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