There are reasons why influential or knowledgeable Americans are staying silent as the worsening fascist dictatorship of the Trumpsters and Musketeers gets more entrenched by the day. Most of these reasons are simple cover for cowardice. Start with the once-powerful Bush family dynasty. They despise Trump as he does them. Rich and comfortable George W. Bush is very proud of his Administration’s funding of AIDS medicines saving lives in Africa and elsewhere. Trump, driven by vengeance and megalomania, moved immediately to dismantle this program. Immediate harm commenced to millions of victims in Africa and elsewhere who are reliant on this U.S. assistance (including programs to lessen the health toll on people afflicted by tuberculosis and malaria).

There are reasons why influential or knowledgeable Americans are staying silent as the worsening fascist dictatorship of the Trumpsters and Musketeers gets more entrenched by the day. Most of these reasons are simple cover for cowardice.

  • ssillyssadass
    2•3 months ago

    The Americans won’t stand up for themselves because they don’t have spines. They’d rather accept the new status quo, that being fascism, from the comfort of their couches than go outside and make some noise.

    • @ArtemisimetrA@lemmy.duck.cafeEnglish
      4•3 months ago

      Well, certainly true to some degree. There’s also the issue of police brutality, “counter-protests”, and the fact that peaceful protest in the US does fuck-all because corporate and government power structures are beholden only to shareholders and not constituents.

      • ssillyssadass
        1•3 months ago

        If peaceful protests don’t work that leaves only one option.

        And no, that option is not “do nothing.”