Spoiler alert: Nobody is taking to the streets. Nobody is going to do anything about an illegitimate SCOTUS. America has shown time and again that it acquiesces to conservative principles. As we stare authoritarianism in the face, folks will shrug their shoulders and move on.
The American myth is one of individual bad actors and a noble population. The reality is one of individual bad actors enabled by people who don’t care. You don’t get segregation, Lynching, gender exclusion, and sexual violence epidemics without people deciding they will go along.
There is no grand revolt. In fact, we mythologize the past by implicitly erasing all of the people who were willingly sacrificed for the majority’s comfort. We have walked down that road before and we’re walking down that road again.
Everything happening now— the assault on reproductive rights, the assault on voting rights, the hyper-policing of gender expression, the panic over critical race theory— is already moving us backwards. We have a societal epidural. We see but do not feel these things happening
The alarm has been ringing for years while people sat around entertained by our politics. But the show is about to end and there will not be another season, because before you turn around your country will be long gone. It’s already well over half way there.
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