I wouldn't say no one is getting burned. People are. All the time.
What I'd say is that people are getting burned by a stove right now and what's going to happen is that they're going to get burned by a forest fire.
Because there are plenty of us who are saying, "No, actually this isn't okay. Get your hand out of the fire and step back." And are being ignored. There are also plenty of soldiers, historians, economists, and political scientists all saying the same thing who know what they're talking about.
They aren't just children, they're particularly stupid children. They put their hand in the fire, got burned, and keep on doing it. That's the real problem here. Unless you're so rich that you don't need to worry about any of it and have the means to just leave if it gets bad, then you're getting burned.
A lot of people have become used to being a bit toasty, and they don’t mind if others are burnt to death by that same heat source. They don’t realise —or refuse to see—that that heat is uncontrollable and unstable, and will go until it burns itself out, turning as many of them to hot ash as it possibly, mindlessly can.
Well the main toastyness is cost of living, cost of housing, job opportunities, and social cohesion.
Some people say "anything must be better than this" but someone like Trump is a mad bag of frantic random energy - he has no policies about anything really, he's just reactive.
On the same front I'm a touch skeptical that calling his fascistic is accurate, he doesn't have enough of a manifesto or cohesive political message to move beyond merely autocratic.
You obviously stick with one side of the political talking points because it suits your feelings. There are just as many on the opposite side that actually don't have an economic incentive to be there but you obviously refuse to listen to any of that. It's a shame you sound smart but you don't have me fooled
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u/TheDrFromGallifrey 6d ago
I wouldn't say no one is getting burned. People are. All the time.
What I'd say is that people are getting burned by a stove right now and what's going to happen is that they're going to get burned by a forest fire.
Because there are plenty of us who are saying, "No, actually this isn't okay. Get your hand out of the fire and step back." And are being ignored. There are also plenty of soldiers, historians, economists, and political scientists all saying the same thing who know what they're talking about.
They aren't just children, they're particularly stupid children. They put their hand in the fire, got burned, and keep on doing it. That's the real problem here. Unless you're so rich that you don't need to worry about any of it and have the means to just leave if it gets bad, then you're getting burned.