Summary
Anti-Trump Americans, especially on the left, are showing a more subdued response to Trump’s 2024 reelection compared to the activism of 2016.
Exhaustion, disillusionment with repeated setbacks, and negative media coverage have led many to disengage from politics or shift focus to personal priorities.
Activist groups, like Women’s March, are planning protests but acknowledge lower enthusiasm and more localized efforts.
Experts suggest this “tune-out” may be a coping mechanism, with some hoping new, non-political participants will lead change.
Many feel drained but believe activism will eventually regain momentum.
You seem to have forgotten to consider the long term effects of repeatedly voting for the lesser evil.
We have been moving further right every election and you haven’t noticed. Voting for the same two factions of the same party won’t and has never changed anything.
I could spent a bunch of time writing this in text, but I hope these two images give you a good picture.
The bare minimum to stop fascism is to actually solve the root of the problem. As we all know, things aren’t going very well. The world can be an unfair place and these injustices can cause quite a bit of frustration, and this frustration causes a want for change. If things aren’t well, we want to change them.
However, some people are benefiting immensely in our current system, at the expense of others, and would, therefore, like to keep thing exactly the way they are. As such, they would like to find a way to counteract this movement for change. And that’s where fascism comes into the picture.
Instead of actually solving the problem, those in power choose to instead blame some small minority for the countries shortcomings. To do so they make use of many tactics, too many to explain here, but they are always changing their wording to plant that thought-seed in the minds of the people. The though-seed being the idea that, in the past, the country was way way better than today and the reason why things have been declining is due to some “intruders” who have corrupted the “purity” of the country.
Obviously, since that minority who is being scapegoated isn’t responsible for the countries problems, things do not improve very much. As such the complaining starts again. And again a minority is blamed. This cycle of blaming continues until the country just collapses into a dictatorship, where the only ones part of the us are the dictator as his cronies.
This is how I look at fascism anyways. Now, this problem is systemic, which implies a problem with the system itself. As such, we will need to fix the system in other to solve the problem, and voting for the two parties who benefit from the system will not do anything.
‘The bare minimum is a perfect solution’ is why people can’t talk to y’all about anything.
Democrats target likely voters. If you’re telling people not to vote… that’s not you.