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Unfortunately I don't think we'll ever learn from history in this way ESPECIALLY when propaganda is so rampant. There not only is no consensus on what our reality actually is, there's no extreme moment where people are compelled to take action until after it's too late. Everything else is just viewed as "politics as usual."
Everything has a veneer of legitimacy, there's just enough wiggle room to paint anything as "not worth rioting over" and so we'll all be agitated until the moment comes when we can use hindsight to say "yep, we were on the road to fascism and now it's actually here." There weren't any bodies before they took over, but there sure as hell will be after.
If we can all sit here while "Judge" Cannon literally acts as a member of Trumps legal defense team, then there isn't anything else short of actually murdering people that will get us off our seats. We all watched Jan 6th happen and as far as I know NO ONE from the general public went to go try to stop it or fight them. We had plenty of warnings as they were all talking about it on Facebook and whatever. That's them literally trying to take over the government and we (me included) just sat here.
It doesn't happen because we are all caught up in our lives like we should be. Nobody is going to go stop the rioters when their children are safely at home and fed. Nobody with their roots down wants to cut them and risk it all for an uncertainty. It sucks, and I'm in the same boat, but maybe we need to realize that it hurts us to not exorcize our power as citizens. It makes the lives of our descendants worse when we don't stand up for them at every point. We could be the biggest pain in the side of the elites if we just organized 1/3rd of us.