Always remember: The majority of US-ians wanted this. They wanted the Gaetz, Gabbaed, Rubio, Hegseth, Musk, Ramaswamy to be in charge. They wanted this fascism and they wanted this weird, old and dark America¹, this Kick-your-ass-America. They wanted minorities to suffer, migrants to bleed, thealth care to be abolished and abortion done again sophistically in the back alleys with cloathes hangers. They wanted tax cuts for the rich at the expense of infrasturcture investement for the lesser well-offs. So stop complaining. Stop raging. The US wanted this. And we'll be lucky if we can avert the nuclear bombs and their fall-out. Climate crisis? Fuck off! In the end, in four years time, when people turn up again from the dungeons to the daylight, they'll be happy they survived. "Look, it wasn't all that awful. Didn't he built great autobahns?" All who rage now will fall in line sooner or later. Because, why do you expect any different when Russia of today shows you clearly that you cannot stay apart, that you will be amalgamated with the regime? Until you agree, first hesitatingly, later strongly, and then beating up all others who still resist. You will become this regime because you will have forgotten how it is to be a human being. So you'll start roughing up the migrants, the refugees, the poor, or your students, in what some smartie-ass calls "lateral violence". It surely doesn't feel that way. When you become the regime, exerting pain onto other will show you how little you knew yourself, how little there was a chance that things might turn out differently, and how happy you are to act out your inner murderer. You will happily fall in line. Exactly because you think you are a "victim". Everyone is a victim, that's how tyrannies work. And the leader, he's not the butcher but the one who by acknowledging his own pain identifies it with that of the nation. So that the nation's healing and his very own become one and the same, his pain his looking glas by which he detects what it is that hurts the nation. And you want to stay apart? You wouldn't even recognize whether there was a place left to stay apart on. You will become the regime. And succumb with a sigh, of relief, of joy, of unity, of "family", of acknowledged pain. You will rejoice in your hate. And get out the vote for another term for this regime. Don't kid yourself. You who are the most opposed now will fall in line first. Because there is no difference between populace and regime. Nowhere.

¹ Alluding to Greil Marcus.

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