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It is the opposite. Almost every spiritual community is focused on human endeavors. People might talk a lot about God, but don't confuse that for people actually doing the work, or even wanting to do the work.

That's putting it extremely mildly. The whole situation was deeply corrupt.

I think you're freaking out a bit. I'm not saying it couldn't happen, especially if things continue to deteriorate and people become more active in their resistance. But people like you and I would be extremely low priority. We are nobodies. They would come after important political opponents first.

That's what I mean. They no longer have to, which is good for all of them, including Trump. They're better off installing someone who is just as much of a sycophant but without the obvious baggage and bad press. There's no shortage of these kind of people.

Smart move on their part. There’s a decent chance he wouldn’t get confirmed and senate repubs would have to turn on Trump. Now everyone can save face.

Jesus or Ghandi could have been sitting a cave for the last 30 years. In that case, they wouldn't even know who Trump is. They would be totally ignorant on all political issues.

Spirituality and politics are unique domains of understanding. Expect that you will have to specifically work at each individually.

Momentum is a huge component. The more socializing you can do that puts you in a good state, the easier it all is. You can also improve your ability to just snap into the zone by improving your inner confidence.

Basic math. Look at who he has aligned himself with.

Wishful thinking. He will not seriously challenge the corporations at all.

You can look forward to the fight for justice and being a light for people in the darkness. But you can't be a leader for anyone if you can't be stable in your own emotions. Acknowledge how you're feeling, but stay conscious and in control. It just is an uncertain time right now. Such is life. We were all living in an American bubble of unprecedented democratic success that said authoritarianism couldn't happen. When in reality, authoritarianism is the norm for most of humanity. Now we have to resist against it, just like people throughout all of history have done.

You're right to have a bad feeling. Things are bad. But don't get lost in your own mind either. Try to stay connected with the facts of what we know and not wildly speculate too much. ^yes also this. From what I heard on TYT, AFPI is actually the more likely agenda. But they're relatively similar in content.

Just find a summary of Project 2025. They've literally told us exactly what they want.

Slavery still technically happening, even in the US: https://www.walkfree.org/global-slavery-index/ As far as racial segregation, I think that would be tough. Society is already deeply racially integrated. And it's not clear to me that they're interested in that anyway. I do expect to at least see a rise in racial hate crimes though. People are going to feel like they have license for their worst impulses.

No. There has been no fundamental value flip. It was always this way.

Worse than that. I’m saying many of them never really did care. They only got democracy because they inherited it from those who came before them that did care. Authoritarianism is the more natural state. I’ve never really thought of myself as patriotic. I never really cared to sing America’s praises. In college, you could find me head banging to Rage Against the Machine and reading about socialism. I had many criticisms of America. So you would think that when an actual authoritarian threat like Trump comes around, people who love to think of themselves as patriots would be the first to fight against him. After all, isn’t democracy our top value? Isn’t democracy what makes us actually great? What separates us from the rest of the world? The thing we’ve been saying we care so much about for 200 years? But no. They mostly do not give a shit. They want what they want, and they will throw democracy out to get it if they have to. This is why a lot of the messaging that liberals put out about Trump being a threat to democracy landed flat. The average American is not developed enough to care about that.

That's even the sadder part. Voting against their own interests.

If Trump actually overrules democracy, potentially you would have a serious leader rise up to challenge him. My guess though is that such a movement would only have enough support once Trump actually does it. Things have to get bad enough for people to actually care. And even then, it might be more of a "Trump has made things so bad, we just need someone else" kind of movement. Rather than people actually caring about higher ideals like democracy. The most shocking thing about this election for me has been seeing people's apathy towards democracy. They just don't care. They care about their egg prices and all their other lower survival concerns. And they just want what they want, regardless of how or who is going to give it to them.

Brian Cohen did a good segment on this: Most likely route right now seems to be "Trump's first term didn't count...because ya know, impeachment".

Oh god. I have no faith in RFK to accomplish anything. Even if he has some good ideas, it's all outweighed by how delusional he is on obvious positions like vaccines. This alone disqualifies him from handling public health. And do people honestly think Trump and his goons are going to let RFK stick it to the corporations? Lol. Trump's administration and Republicans in office will handcuff anything genuinely progressive he tries to do. It'll all just be anti-science bullshit.

Yes, it's extremely disturbing. People are just not taking this seriously enough.

Why are you just assuming there will be another vote? There is no guarantee of that at this point.

The states will certainly have some power. If democracy falls, it will not just instantly fold like a house of cards. People will mount considerable resistance.

They essentially have all three branches now. Of course they're going to implement something akin to Project 2025, even if it isn't specifically that. This was never in doubt. This is why they wanted Trump in the first place. You couldn't do it with a more normie republican like Mike Pence.

There are still many appointees to made. Also, this is likely the best version of the cabinet we will see. As the admin progresses throughout their term, Trump may switch some of them out with even more unhinged candidates as they all become more extreme.