Passivity and comfort will win out over internet hyperbole.
Did you actually read what I wrote? A lot of us are done with this whole "comfort over liberty" bullshit. You're in for a rude awakening.
And I can see by your subsequent posts in this thread what you really think...would you have been one of the dudes looking the other way when the Nazis were rounding up the Jews?
Did you read what I actually wrote?
No, you didn't. You just made up shit, because you're another one of those posters who reads shit into other people's posts.
I think this is appalling. I've consistently been one of the strongest advocates for basic human rights on this board. But I warned that the Hong Kong protesters were going to get squashed, and they were. Similarly, in the US, there are zero signs of a mass uprising, and hoping for one is idiotic. The people taking away our rights keep pushing the boundaries, and have been for more than year, and the populace has mostly just rolled over and accepted it. Just consider how many rights we took for granted 18 months ago, which have been erased. The few times when there's been some minor resistance, they stop pushing quite as hard, people settle down, and the window keeps moving and moving.
There will be no mass uprising. The battle on the national stage is lost, and it's lost because the people who support freedom were blind. This has been a generation-long campaign, where they've developed critical theories, then slowly taken over key institutions like academia, the media, big tech, and lower education, and driven out all other points of view. With control over what people see and the upbringing of the next generation, they've solidified their hold, and now control nearly the entire government bureaucracy and even big business.
Hoping for some miraculous revolution is futile. The only way to resist this is at lower levels. States that ignore federal dictates. Local municipalities that ignore states. Your own local school board. Succession movements, maybe, though since the Civil War that idea is so toxic it's probably a non-starter. Decentralization, local politics, and resisting the further accumulation of power by centralized autocrats.
And work on theory and ideas, not out of any hope that they'll be adopted any time in the near future, but because having a solid conceptual framework creates an opportunity when the conditions are ripe. The next time there's a major crisis, say devaluation of the US dollar and hyperinflation, people will look for answers, and may side with those who can provide them.
But there's zero chance of some sudden reversal right now.