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11. There's a new "silent majority" these fascists are counting on...
Thu Nov 20, 2025, 08:55 AM
Nov 20

these are the people who haven't been and think they won't be affected by whatever trump, the not-so-supreme court, and corporations have done or will do.
They have their happy little lives, feel that things will "work out ok (for them, at least) as always" and somehow WE will all get through this back to a 50s life style while they continue as if nothing happened to them.

They were fortunate to have had a better life than most others and if it doesn't affect them, they feel badly but...at least they have their happy places. Until THEY start to really feel the pinch, and have to make sacrifices as the rest of us, nothing will change and this is what the Republicans are counting on. If it doesn't affect the 50s type middle class, they know they can get away with anything until it does. Then if there's a "push back" throw some meaningless chaff at them to appease them and cull them all once again.

Actually, they are no more than cattle happily grazing in their fields, fed well, with good health care until it's time for the stun gun. They they won't understand why it happened to them. Mores the pity.

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