Not a drill

This is not a drill. 

Authoritarianism has a solid foothold in the US. The classic playbook has been applied where you create a bad situation which generates protest and you react with an extreme response to deter and frighten. LA is now that boiling point. 

It's been done before and the situation  will continue to degrade until perhaps martial law is enacted and you end up with a fascist regime. 

Walking this back is going to be extremely difficult because the dark forces that wrote and promoted project 2025 are not going to give up without a fight. The "cruelty is the point" crowd has officially taken over and they are dogmatic right wingers committed to their cause of taking America backwards to some utopia of their own imagination; a sort of Christian nationalist mecca modeled on a past where minorities knew their place.

I try to get past the stupidity but it's impossible because this world is replete with idiots. 77 million people got this very wrong and it should have been obvious that you don't re-elect a despicable criminal into the highest office in the land.

As empires crumble fingers are invariably pointed internally because you need scapegoats. You need the Woke, LGBTQ people, college professors or immigrants to blame for a malaise that was already well in place. They always do it to themselves.

An unjust society cannot continue in health until the underlying cancer is addressed; one which took 40 years to metastasize. It will involve major surgery to cure it in the form of major societal overhaul but until then many innocent people will suffer.

Same old song and now it's up to the people like it always is.