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this post was submitted on 26 Mar 2026
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I honestly don't know what to do to get people to grasp this. I don't know if I'm mostly butting my head against young people's ideology. When we're young we're less likely to make any concessions or grasp how imperfect the reality we live in is. My fear is that I'm trying to get this basic concept through to people my age. If that's true, then this country is in deep, deep shit. Because this is not a hard concept to understand, especially if you've made it past that early adulthood no concessions it has to be just and fair phase.
Like, this is the reality you live in. These are your options on a federal scale. One is very clearly fascist, the other is not, despite a bunch of uninformed people in this very thread saying that both sides are fascist. Clearly these people have no idea what fascism is.
Do not underestimate the chemical lobotomies, the "crystallising public opinion" psyops, the irrational groupthinks. Still, speaking out, exposing them to other ways, as futile as it long seems, is necessary for breaking the spell. Much to mend. Beware certainty, especially in ourselves, lest we unwittingly succumb similarly, depriving ourselves nuance, pushed to polarised reductions, peddling metrics to bolster our certainty of our own one true way, denying ourselves access to multiple perspectives, deluding ourselves into naive realism, believing what we believe is reality, and not just a favoured perspective, one of many potential more.