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Go ahead and face the consequences. When you start stripping away people's rights and give them no other options to engage civily with society then their only option left will be to take you down or leave and watch your whole nation crash and burn.
Actually, maybe that's for the best.
None of this should be surprising to a vast amount of people who have been watching. All of the demise of the democracy in the USA began 50 years ago. It's by design in order to further enrich the top 1%.
There is an Everest of work to be done in order to reverse all of this. It is not impossible but will take an enormous effort.
I hope that a better system can come out of this because personally I think capitalism and representative democracy will always end up like this as people cannot be represented properly by such a system.
capitalism and representative democracy
I blame their bastard child, lobbyism, aka legal corruption.
There is an Everest of work to be done in order to reverse all of this. It is not impossible but will take an enormous effort.
The first half is true, but I think reversing this would require not having opponents actively working against us, to be possible. Just getting back to where we were in 2015 would take years and years, partially because it will require replacing multiple SCOTUS justices and undoing horrible legal rulings that Congress alone can't overcome.
I think we are either at or past the point of no return, beyond which many of our collective social divisions can be mended. We have 2 wildly divergent cultures in the US which seem incompatible, and they're genuinely completely different societies with different values, customs, social structures, and goals.