Gotta hand it to the champions of democracy and human rights on the US side.
As much as I've criticized the more relaxed tactics in the past, it seems they're working. The US is successfully beating back fascism in a remarkably short time. It took a lot longer in other countries to do the same. And it virtually always required something catastrophic.
I'm very optimistic right now.... even though it's not over yet, and how this all ends is unknown at this time. The Epstein stuff is a major blow, but it's not even that, but Mamdani's election as Mayor of New York City. That's the exclamation point, a turning point, the climax of the story (speaking in Freytagian terms). New York City was a hotbed for Islamophobia in the early 2000s after the September 11th attacks. That was probably the beginning of this movement away from democracy, and toward more authoritarian rule in the US, and then about 2015 we saw a sharp shift in the culture to something darker. I see a big cultural change occurring right now, and it's pleasing to see how Americans are fighting like hell for democracy and human decency.
I describe myself as a little dose of toxic masculinity.
