(12-15-2016, 02:52 PM)X_4AD_84 Wrote: I've lived a pretty good life, overall. I've exceeded the life span of one grand parent. Why would I want to survive? No, I'm not talking about taking an easy way out. Anything but.
What I'm talking about is, how many goons can I take out?
That innately needs to be scoped as a suicide mission.
HAIL TO THE MEMORY OF THE WARSAW UPRISING!!!!
I might suggest becoming a sports fan. I can assure you that you will not be sent to a political prison for cheering on the Chicago White Sox in Kalamazoo or the Detroit Tigers in South Bend.
I don't have much to look forward to while Trump is President, so I can take some more chances than I used to. I am satisfied that I can survive some dog bites or the blast of a water cannon. Trump's America will look more like Mississippi in 1963 than the Devil's Reich in 1943. Both were doomed, but the political order in Mississippi went down with far less bloodshed.
We have a heritage of freedom that many Americans sold out for some vague promises of jobs. Sure, in every fascistic regime there is much work -- more hours of toil, for much less, and under harsher conditions. I doubt that workers will long put up with that. There will be strikes as profitable companies demand pay cuts but unpaid overtime after the Republicans all but outlaw unions and abolish the minimum wage. So end up poorer and without freedom... even some Tea Party participants will find that objectionable.
Donald Trump will surely betray the workingman. Let's take it out on him in Gubernatorial, state legislative, and Congressional elections in 2018, and really clean house in 2020. Then we have major reforms of American politics and even culture.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.