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I'd argue this is true temporarily.
A lie is like putting something on a credit card. It can make things look better in the short term, but the debt builds. Maybe you can get lucky and win the lottery (or get a pandemic to use as an excuse) and pay off the debt temporarily, but keep following the same strategy and the debt will build again. And when the debt grows larger than what you can repay, and people figure this out, they start to get pissed.
Maybe Trump can survive the current crisis in his popularity, but eventually he's going to be no more popular that Pol Pot is today.
The only thing that keeps me safe is community and the fact that the community is able to bring sufficient firepower to keep bad actors away (for now at least) we only need to delay them long enough. The same applies to everyone; so build as large communities as possible and take care of everyone you can.
You need to study the historic examples of fascist rises a bit more I feel. Your ideals are noble but misplaced and may well put you in danger as even lemmy is being scraped by the hard right's AIs to compile a list of dissidents
Every one is already in danger better to protect the vulnerable than to just try to protect myself.