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This is related to why I'm so nervous about teaching social studies next year. Can anyone help me think about how to teach US history without shoving a bunch of propaganda down middle school throats?
Give out copies of Larry Gonick's textbook?
FWIW, Karl Marx agreed with you.
nah
I looked it up a while back so forgive me if I didn't get it right but I believe there have been two cases in history of a peaceful transition from fascism to democracy. Anyway, I'm hoping for that.
Portugal and Spain in the 1970s?
There are several other examples of a more or less peaceful transition from autocracy to democracy.
Only 1/3 of the voting age population voted against MAGA after having a 10 year preview. The US is unsalvageable. Live your life while you can. There are too few patriots to fight back against this hoard of loyalists.
Fix what exactly? Hard to answer, when the question isn't clearly defined.
Not denying, that there's a lot to be fixed. But regarding the means, that depends on what exactly you're talking about.
As long as Americans think one day peaceful protests will do anything, I don't see a anything happening. That concept is so mind boggling dumb imho. If you're not willing to commit for weeks/months, and say from the start, 'ah tomorrow we will be gone'. Then why wouldn't the government just ignore it? No you put out your demands and sit down in Washington DC or NY or something until the demands are met. Giving it a deadline just doesn't make any sense at all.
Now if this would actually happen, I don't see it stay peaceful for very long, but probably a tiananmen square situation developing. With how little the gov cares about people's well being.
But to be honest, the US probably needs vigilantes/rebels a la the Black Panthers for anything to happen.
The democracy route? Yeah it's way past that point already. As long as people like Bernie Sanders (or anyone more left than Bush) keep getting marked as some kind of 'communist', nothing will happen there. That propaganda has been gobbled up too much already.
Almost got it and screwed up in your last sentence.
Bernie the sheepdog works for the same people
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The US has been a nation no-one should treat as a serious entity since 2024-11-05, and can not be again until they can prove their ability to hold another legitimate election, and concluded the Nuremberg-a-Lago trials.
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