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I think we’re in stage 2 now: find out
Part of me hopes that other countries that have also had some populist fascist groups making waves recently would see how bad we’ve fucked up and not go down the same path. But we sure as hell didn’t seem to learn anything from Brexit about isolationism
Canada has an election coming up. It looked like a sure thing that the right wing party would win, now things are swinging in favour of the left wing because we’re afraid of Trump
The liberals are not left wing by most measures. They are probably best described as slightly right. You get the usual Neo liberal economics but you don’t get the regressive social issues.
But we sure as hell didn’t seem to learn anything from Brexit about isolationism
“Oh that could never happen here!”
This is the FO part of the American Exceptionalism FA.
I quite literally remember having teachers in elementary school teaching about the holocaust/hitler and asking the class if if they could foresee this happening in the US. Every kid shoot their head and chuckled assuredly, how absurd to even consider.
I still remember the look on Mrs. Begasto’s face of “oh yeah? so confident, I know something you don’t, I know the world in a way you are entirely naive to.” I didn’t understand why she felt that way, but I could tell she was certain about something I didn’t get. The closer we edge to a fearful, uneducated public thinking a bully king is what would be good for the country and the world the more I find myself thinking about Mrs. Begasto’s worried smirk.
Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, Margaret Atwood, and others like them weren’t super fortune tellers or anything. They just studied humankind enough to know what could happen. And we Americans by-and-extra-large are too arrogant to learn those lessons.