Part of the reason I remain optimistic is that overreach is a major accelerator in radicalization for people who would otherwise tune out. The Boston Massacre happened six years before the colonies would call for Revolution. Bleeding Kansas preceded the Civil War. People react when threatened.
I call this the Confederacy Paradox. They separated from the Union explicitly to avoid the abolition of slavery, something that wasn’t even on the table! But by leaving the Union, they ensured a political backlash against slavery that would aim to dismantle it as the core of the rebellion.
I mean, we can kind of see this happening even in the limited sample size of this app because I’ve started seeing more “both parties are the same, why vote?” accounts going, “Fine, Joe it is.”
Rather not have the violence part of the overreach implied in your examples there. We’ve had enough black church/synagogue shootings and abortion clinic bombings already.
