Originally Posted by
s.a.m
Earlier this year, the Democrats did a survey of 'gettable' non-Trumpy, non-election-denying voters in a few of the swing states, and a very comfortable majority of the people questioned had not heard the threats Trump was making about suspending the constitution, using the forces of law and order or military to oppress his political opponents etc... And there has been a huge amount of learned discussion about the paths to autocracy being laid and comaprisons made with elsewhere and with our own experience of the past... the planned dismantling of institutions that Americans depend on... how this is likely to affect normal Americans... false equivalency in the media, and so on. People either aren't hearing the stuff that's being said by Trump and the pantomine villains who are advising him - out loud and in the open! - , or they aren't hearing or relating to the opposition to it, or they don't see why they shoud care. If an appeal to reason and conscience isn't going to work, maybe pointing and laughing is the answer?
