The thing with fascism is that it just slowly becomes the norm. The sun still shines, the birds still sing, people still pitch in during a hurricane, the SF Giants still suck and the Warriors start up again in a month or so.
But all the while the norms we live with inexorably change. The President's mouthpiece demands that a critic get fired, that an investigator be imprisoned. Law enforcement is encouraged to resort to violent extremes. Our friends, our neighbors, the people we go to church with are transformed into suspects. We find myriad excuses - "Freddie Gray had it coming, learning disabled children don't really need the protection of human rights, America was better off when certain groups couldn't vote." Or, simply, "I wish people would shut up on Facebook and focus on the good things in life." But at the bottom of it all is this one single thought: "As long as it isn't me."
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