Not only do they never apologize for being wrong, they never apologize for accusing you of wearing tinfoil when what you said would happen, happens.

Then they continue telling you you're over-reacting about the current thing you're telling them.

Its like consistently predicting the lottery numbers, and then arguing with you when they keep losing even though you tell them the winning number the day before every time.

I feel for you, none of us are getting apologies of any kind, nor are we likely to get any accolades for being right. Shit sucks

I have had friends start to freak out this term. I told them that most of this same stuff happened last term, you just didn't hear about it (or listen to what I was saying) for some reason. Granted, he's become much, much worse since our conversations in February because of SCOTUS backing him, but he had concentration camps last time as well.

Two books you might want to check out are The Death of Expertise by Tom Nichols and "The Tyranny of Merit" by Michael Sandel. Here is a link to his TED profile and talks. Both talk about why this is happening and how we got here. While somewhat depressing, I found both books very validating(? can't put a word to it) of all the frustration with family/friends these last years. Education has been gutted and imho real history is no longer taught. Add the internet and social media to the culture and suddenly everyone is an expert. In less than a year, he has destroyed the integrity, reputation and effectiveness of every federal agency made to keep us safe and let us sleep at night. The UN has been effectively neutralized by our vote on the security council. It's maddening beyond words and I'm scared shitless of what's to come.

So when is the last chance to get out before it's too late?

Bro why are we not working together at this point

They will not. It's way too late.

You're right that its a general trend, but there are exceptions.

Australia presently has a progressive government, with the largest majority in living memory. Our conservative parties have been gutted.

Granted, we have our share of dickheads, and id be happy to swap them for US lefties.

The worst part is, we don’t have to be, all this is purely design choices

Yeah, I don't know how well their supply lines would cope against basically the entire world. But it's still scary.

And it is infinitely complex. MAGAs are too stupid to wield our military effectively.

Luckily most of that military will be turned inward.

I think the failure to prosecute Nixon and the gang of criminals around him is where it started. If they were brought to justice back then everything would be different now. All of the breakdown we have now flows from the lawlessness that failure unleashed.

It’s impossible to stay a good person if you’re just “enjoying the ride.”

Evil flourishes when good people fail to act.

Not much anyone can do? You're MAGA, right?

we didn't start the fire...

When Spain collapsed into civil war in 1936 it didn't spill over into Portugal. But, Portugal had its own problems then, with a dictatorship starting in 1933 that lasted about 40 years.

During WWII Austria was the first to fall to Germany, but there was at least some popular support for that. There would be virtually none for Canada joining the US at this point. Poland required an invasion, but they collapsed in almost no time. But, then there's Switzerland, which wasn't touched.

Italian fascism never really spread beyond Italy. But, again, much of that was the Great Depression so other countries had unrelated problems of their own.

If a unified US decided to invade Canada, there's nothing the Canadian military could do to stop it. But, if the US descends into a conflict between multiple factions and Canada stays neutral, it could avoid being invaded. IMO, one of the major reasons that Switzerland was never invaded during WWII was that it was useful for both the Axis and the Allies to have a neutral place nearby that was untouched by all the conflict. It's a place to get hard-to-get items when there's a blockade. It's a place where the elite can put their families where they're safe from the conflict, etc.

No matter what happens Canada would be in trouble. The US is a major trade partner and the border has been something Canada hasn't had to worry about defending for a long time. But, there's a chance the worst of the chaos could remain on the other side of the border.

That's right, Citizen, good correct-think. We can always bomb our way to peace and invade our way to diplomacy.