The amount of absolute hate, complete intolerance, and total acceptance of even the craziest of lies in even people who I know were once the total opposite leads me to think there's not a lot of hope left for the short term. Dems may squeak out a few wins here or there, but this hate has taken hold rapidly around the people of the US, and its set its roots deep. Tolerance or civility produces a very visceral reaction in people I've tried to talk to, people that I've known for decade and who once taught me about tolerance and compassion.
I truly have no idea how we come back from this. You might get some margin votes to switch some things in the midterms, but the kind of hate that's being blasted full force at people now, on TV and all across social media, it's radicalizing people to a nightmarish degree. How does that get reversed? The power behind that is going to settle in and increase its efforts to keep power, which is going to make reversing it even harder than it is now. And how does that get reversed? People so sure of their hate towards others that they celebrate it now...that's not something that goes away quickly. And are we even sure that in 4 years we're going to be allowed the kinds of transparent, un-meddled elections to the degree we've had in the past?
I want to be wrong, I want to believe our better world is going to come back after this and people I used to love will become decent, tolerant, compassionate people again. But that would take changes on such huge levels now that I don't know if I will see in the remainder of my lifetime. Calling out how things are unfair or mean and whining about it on TV certainly isn't going to fix anything. That requires actual concepts of right and wrong to still be a thing. I'm not sure it is, because most people just shrug, don't care, and say yeah, but whatabout (tm) this other thing the other side did that was way worse?
If I'm wrong, tell me how. I would love nothing more than to be completely wrong about what's going on in the US.
