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brakester

(385 posts)
Mon Jul 21, 2025, 06:19 PM 21 hrs ago

Beware of SHOCK EXHAUSTION

Sadly, the US doesn't seem to be making much progress in saving our democracy and way of life. Humans have a great gift for resilience, which helps us go through some very tough times and come out stronger. The flip side of that is we can get used to anything if it goes on long enough. 


America is being subjected to a tsunami of grievance and fraud visited upon us by a very troubled man who, driven by his deep well of insecurity and need for control, has seeped into every corner of our lives.


Masha Gessen, Russian-American journalist warns us of Shock Exhaustion. It is based on Masha's experience of living, working and being tried in absentia in Russia, where Putin made changes in such rapid succession that people accepted his policies as routine, and thus acceptable. Many believe that Putin's influence on our president has resulted in our rapid rise to authoritarianism.


Are we letting ourselves fall into complacency and a normalization of cruelty and fear?


Hitler was named Chancellor on Jan 30, 1933. Dachau, his first concentration work/death camp, opened on March 22, 1933 about two months later. (We are nearing our 6th month of autocracy). It started out as a forced work facility, but many died of starvation, disease, "medical experiments" and execution. Are our new immigration camps modeled after Hitler's (who built more than one thousand in total)? In the Big Billionaires Budget $45 billion was allocated for new camps which could add space for 100,000 detainees.


The administration promised they would only be jailing and deporting dangerous criminals, but soon expanded by white supremacist Stephen Miller to include immigrants who were working towards becoming American citizens and even law-abiding citizens. This cruel policy is due to hatred of difference and works as permanent voter suppression.


Thanks to all who are gathering together, protesting, writing, speaking out and learning to moderate the stress he puts us through. We all need to up our game and not be lulled into complacency. We are at a very perilous place.

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Beware of SHOCK EXHAUSTION (Original Post) brakester 21 hrs ago OP
K&R 2naSalit 10 hrs ago #1
I'm shocked and exhausted. 1WorldHope 5 hrs ago #2

1WorldHope

(1,452 posts)
2. I'm shocked and exhausted.
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 10:23 AM
5 hrs ago

But I'm not giving up the fight. Screw that fascist bastard. There are a lot of misinformed people in this country, and plenty of cruelty to go around. But, I don't believe that this is how most of us operate.

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