Fall

This country - the USA, once a symbol of freedom (as laughable as that may be) - bombed another country and kidnapped the leader of that country. The president then declared that country will now be under the control of this country. He also stated that he notified the big oil companies before the attack, when he didn't even notify Congress what would have happened. He also declared it was specifically to gain control of the oil on their lands.

He has turned an entire governmental branch into a group that is rounding up immigrants off the streets just because of the color of their skin, and so many of them are disappearing without being heard from again. Two-thirds of which are proving to have no criminal record at all.

He has supported genocide. Even worse than that, his son in law has released plans to renovate the ravaged area as some kind of vacation paradise at the expense of the slaughtered people.

He is claiming any criticism of what he is doing as being illegal and worthy of imprisonment. He has cried so loud that he has gotten people and programs taken off of television. News organizations that, while never having been truly unbiased, are now putting out propaganda pieces for the administration (see CBS's most recent piece on Marco Rubio).

He has sent the US military into cities that prominently voted against him. He has pardoned EVERY insurrectionist from the January 6th storming of the Capital.

He has been threatening every country he believes he can gain from, with the threat being to take over their country.

He was a part of the biggest child sex trafficking ring, almost certainly, that modern history has ever seen.

He can barely form coherent sentences.

And there are still people who support him.

This is how quickly the illusion of freedom disappears.

This is how quickly democracy falls.

The thing that always made democracy appealing is that it could lead to the hope of a better tomorrow or the hope that things could stay the same, but it would - in theory - arrive based on what the majority of society would want. For progress, it would always move slowly because those in power would always want to prevent it in order to maintain that power, and would thusly utilize their power to attempt to convince the masses to keep the repression. For those who want the progress, they would be forced to fight against that power with fewer resources, but with higher numbers. As it has always been, more people suffer through the society staying the same than they do otherwise. And, for people who have even a touch of intelligence, they can see the way things can be better as the logical progress needed to thrive within a society. After all, what is the point of a society if it doesn't benefit all.

But here we are. Thousands of years of documented history to fall back upon and still so fucking ignorant that we could allow a person with an over inflated ego, a lack of intelligence, a general misunderstanding of society.