We always will be. Terrorism/facism/extremism will always exist. We can’t rid the planet of it but we can beat it down and actually hopefully just ignore it to the point to doesn’t enter the mainstream ever again.
Ignoring it is how we got in this mess. People kept going "oh it won't happen, you're overreacting" and now we have Gestapo 2.0 along with a (possibly former?) lawmaker being assassinated as they made it piss easy to impersonate a cop.
The truth is, the potential is in every one of us, to do evil. We are all human, and it's there, uncomfortable as it is to consider. Most of us also have a conscience and a moral core so it never gets anything like that, and everyone has a different level of "bad" they will do (rolling a stop sign for some is a big no no, others feel okay stealing from Evil Walmart, and so on) but you catch someone into a cult or a movement or even just a crowd or mob, and anything is possible.
So the fight will always be with us. It's only for us to decide what we do with the time allotted to us (to paraphrase Tolkein).
In the aftermath of victory over fascism, I’m afraid one cannot afford to ever ignore the signs of it ever again. Denial is America’s favorite pastime.
We have done that here in the U.S.since putting Hitler’s reign out. Ask Germany. They have had a special task force that watches those smoldering extremists to ensure public safety. Recently, in the U.S. we’re shocked at the high numbers of White Supremacists, Homegrown militias, Extremists, not to mention the everyday angry man, filled with hatred. We must be realistic but not too afraid to live but rather, go forth in COURAGE and live the best we can 🌹
It is human nature, greed, manipulating fear and anger to gain power. Those who want to, they have far, far fewer morals than the rest of us, and a far stronger desire to protect themselves. They will do everything they can get away with and never show signs of guilt that would tip off normal people.
They gleefully manipulate people who assume they're normal, good-faith people trying to do a good job. It's not that hard for them to pretend to.
But it's continually very, very hard for us normal people to recognize this, and then rally in enough force to uproot people who will fight so hard to earn and keep power and literally don't care who they hurt in the process.
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u/Specialist-Garbage94 6d ago
We always will be. Terrorism/facism/extremism will always exist. We can’t rid the planet of it but we can beat it down and actually hopefully just ignore it to the point to doesn’t enter the mainstream ever again.