>> That's how things tend to work when people are so alienated or disenfranchised from the system that change within the system becomes impossible, yes.
And the endpoint of that process is revolution. Again, not a good thing. Revolutions are bloody.
How can you fix the democratic process so that works as it ought and prevent the disaster you're heading for?
I don't know. I never thought I'd see the day when Americans seem more concerned about "SJWs" exercising their free speech rights than actual secret police tossing political dissidents into black vans but I guess here we are.
Many people oppose "cancel culture" and "SJWs" because they see them as part of a vast leftist conspiracy imposing a political agenda across media, arts and academia and oppressing free (read: right-wing) speech at every turn. Many of the same people support Trump's abuses of power being wielded against those they consider "leftist agitators" like BLM and Antifa.
Both cases linked by fear of and opposition to the existential threat of "the left" as an insidious enemy within and a willingness to accept any means necessary to stop it.
I look on in desperate horror at the blatant, authoritarian corruption happening every single day at the White House, and yet the only righteous anger I see on the “intellectual watering hole” of HN is towards cancel culture. I don’t get it. Don’t people read the news? How do you not have an ulcer from watching this shit every day for four years?
And the endpoint of that process is revolution. Again, not a good thing. Revolutions are bloody.
How can you fix the democratic process so that works as it ought and prevent the disaster you're heading for?