It is now 7 days until the election.
Trump just recreated the
1939 Nazi Bund Rally, and held it in exactly the same location: Madison Square Gardens. The affair was blatantly racist - no dogwhistles, no trying to hide anything. Just openly white Christian supremacist. Many of you might not know about the
Bund Rally, but, in a nutshell, in 1939, half of the US was all for Hitler. Loved the guy. Wanted America to join up.
Only Pearl Harbor changed that. If Pearl Harbor had never happened, if Japan had not attacked America, it is entirely possible that the US would have backed Nazi Germany. Hands up - how many of you knew that bit of history before I brought it up here? Half of all the alternate time lines for earth have Hitler winning. Jumping between alternate earths is a lot more unpleasant than most sci-fi shows ever indicate. Imagine if
Sliders had understood history a little better?
I guess little has actually changed since then. It
looked like it had changed. But it didn't.
I despise the fact that 50% of Americans appear to want Trump to become the new Führer. There are mechanisms already in place that could grant him legal dictatorship for life if he wins, all part of Project 2025. That would be, literally, the end of democracy in the US.
Wanna hear something funny? My mother, now long dead, just about blew all of her transistors on being angry and feeling betrayed because Nixon had some guys do some shenanigans at the Watergate Hotel. She was sitting in the dark, hands balled into fists, swearing over it. Cursing his very name.
Can you imagine her trying to deal with Trump? Or, for that matter, the existence of Kamala Harris - my mom was a wee bit of a fucking racist. She was born in 1908. I had an elderly mother; she birthed me when she was 48. But she was a super patriot. USA all the way. WW2 affected her a lot.
Anyway, 50% of Americans are okay with giving up their freedom and nation to a felonious grifting television personality and failed businessman.
This is who the US is. This is what Americans are.
And I am trapped in it all, adrift in a poison ocean, watching the nation I exist within rapidly die. 50/50 chance, in just one tiny week, that I could end up stuck in an actual Fourth Reich.
I am feeling fear, and despair, right now. And, since I have no other place to express those emotions, I am posting how I feel on a goddamn stupid fanfiction website. Holy crap, right? Holy goatfucking shitballs. Fifty-fifty roll. 1-10 on a D20, and
'Welcome to Nazi America!'
Whether he wins or not, though, I am convinced there will be a significant amount of violence. Neighbors killing neighbors, militias shooting up main street, that sort of thing. Be careful, both close to, and especially after, the election. Be aware of your surroundings. None of this is new, but it is horrible.
It is just surprising to be happening here, in this place, in this year, right now.
I foolishly thought folks had gotten a little better. That was the whole reason I came to Fimfiction and began writing here - I got excited at the thought there might be a movement towards compassion and sincerity represented by the popularity of MLP:FiM. Seriously, that was what brought me here.
I am so stupidly desperate for even the slightest sign of Something Better. Silly, silly me.
Petal Chatoyance Aealacreatrananda
Currently doing hard time on Earth, Mundis.
Served 64 years thus far,
but not overly eager for parole.
Cited for Good Behavior.