It is time to start asking ourselves, in all seriousness; "What would you do right now if you knew that fascists were coming."
Because it is so obvious that they are coming.
Buy a gun, and learn how to use it. This is good advice even if you don't believe it's necessary.
Theyre already here and affecting some groups. Just ask how privileged you are before youre next on the list
Make a bug out plan. Assume roads and cars are not an option. Assume you will be able to claim political asylum in another nation. Pack a bag.
Asked and answered. We, collectively, elected Trump a second time and left a GOP majority in Congress.
Institutionalized racism. Police immune to prosecution. Government-backed monopolies. Oligarchy based on proximity to the supreme. Scapegoating various classes of people. False flags. Surveillance economy. Seems to me that whatever we have now is functionally indistinct from fascism. But if it makes you feel better to keep calling it democracy...
Wherever Robert Heinlein is right now, he is shaking his head sadly. Told ya so......
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Michigan recently introduced a "save the children" bill that would ban VPNs in an act titled "anticorruption of public morals".
https://legislature.mi.gov/Bills/Bill?ObjectName=2025-HB-493...