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Early last week, I was at the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library for its first weekend. At the library itself, despite President Donald Trump inserting himself incongruously into the opening ceremonies, I did not see a single person sporting a Trump-branded clothing item.

The town of Medora, North Dakota, itself was, however, a different story. It wasn’t overwhelming. But for someone who lives in an urban center of a blue state, where even in the ruby red rural areas most people have become sufficiently shamed to shut up about their MAGA tendencies, a single errant MAGA cap is a rarity.

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[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Maybe that’s just the way human civilization works… It has to get really bad for the majority of people before ordinary decent folks are forced into action.

I agree, and I think that's why Project2025 is a thing, and why they're slow-walking the destruction of everything. They're avoiding to, as Admiral Yamamoto once said, "awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve." I think our society still has this kind of backbone and character, but only under sudden and extreme conditions.