Fascism needs enemies to operate and will create them for purpose if none are ready to hand. Fascism also craves power and will seek to expand infinitely until the universe is bent to its will. I don’t blame any individual for fleeing when the price of staying is torture and death. If my personal circumstances were different I would do the same.
But, if every trans person suddenly left the US, Trump and co. would continue to find and terrorize enemies because that’s what they have to do to keep the terror machine alive. Brown, queer, trans, autistic, communist, doesn’t really matter what the label is, or even if it truly applies to a person, they just have to label enemies and then punish them publicly to show their supporters that they are being fought for. When they run out of victims, new ones will be selected. There’s no endgame; fascism is always plutocrats looting the country behind a facade of nationalism, and they get as long as the getting’s good. Then the facade collapses, sooner or later, and those left holding the reigns of the machine are (sometimes) punished, and the plutocrats move on to find the next grift, and the people are left picking up the pieces of a shattered nation.
I don’t know how long the American terror machine has left. It feels like it’s been on the tipping point since Trump got elected in '16. It could crash down after the midterms, it could be ten more years. But I know, until it dies, it will never run out of victims. By definition, it can’t. Until it does I’ll be here, doing what I can. And when it collapses, I’ll be around to help us get through the demolition and rebuilding. Hopefully building something better than before. :(
if every trans person suddenly left the US, Trump and co. would continue to find and terrorize enemies because that’s what they have to do to keep the terror machine alive.
Fascism needs enemies to operate and will create them for purpose if none are ready to hand. Fascism also craves power and will seek to expand infinitely until the universe is bent to its will. I don’t blame any individual for fleeing when the price of staying is torture and death. If my personal circumstances were different I would do the same.
But, if every trans person suddenly left the US, Trump and co. would continue to find and terrorize enemies because that’s what they have to do to keep the terror machine alive. Brown, queer, trans, autistic, communist, doesn’t really matter what the label is, or even if it truly applies to a person, they just have to label enemies and then punish them publicly to show their supporters that they are being fought for. When they run out of victims, new ones will be selected. There’s no endgame; fascism is always plutocrats looting the country behind a facade of nationalism, and they get as long as the getting’s good. Then the facade collapses, sooner or later, and those left holding the reigns of the machine are (sometimes) punished, and the plutocrats move on to find the next grift, and the people are left picking up the pieces of a shattered nation.
I don’t know how long the American terror machine has left. It feels like it’s been on the tipping point since Trump got elected in '16. It could crash down after the midterms, it could be ten more years. But I know, until it dies, it will never run out of victims. By definition, it can’t. Until it does I’ll be here, doing what I can. And when it collapses, I’ll be around to help us get through the demolition and rebuilding. Hopefully building something better than before. :(
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