What will the breaking point be?

[madaboutharry]

Life in America now feels like a violin string turned so tight that it is a moment away from snapping.

What will it be? Is there even a straw anywhere that will break the camel's back? I don't think that the American people can continue living under this level of stress and anxiety.

MAGA's are not immune from the madness coming our way. In fact, they could be the ones most devastated by the breakdown of our institutional systems. I wonder if there is anything that will wake them up.

It simply doesn't feel like America anymore.

"You never know what you had 'till it's gone."

[rich7862]

1. The Breaking Point for this nazi regime is when we all say no more!!!!!!!

[sop]

2. I've lost count of all the predicted Trump "breaking points" over the last few years.

Seemingly nothing he does will persuade his MAGA followers to quit him.

[WestMichRad]

3. Take away our television and video games

That’d piss off the masses!

[central scrutinizer]

4. The frog in the kettle analogy comes to mind

[ScoutHikerDad]

5. Sometimes All it Takes...

...is one last "final straw" after years or even decades of oppression, like with Masha Amini being arrested, beaten and murdered for refusing to wear a hijab in Iran a few years ago. This went viral in a big way in our hyper-immediate social-media environment, and I'm sure you all remember the massive protests, demonstration and violence that followed. An inciting incident like that seems certain to happen here if "the wrong person" gets violently abused on film, and it also goes viral.

The flip side to that coin is that I think many/most of us now believe that the rapist felon is slavering at the bit for that very thing to happen so that he can invoke the Insurrection Act and REALLY show us his power and cruelty. Bring it, I say. Those bastards can't kill us all. And when enough people in the clueless middle and even disillusioned magats wake up and realize that our true enemy has ALWAYS been the billionaire class, not all the imaginary enemies Fox tells them to hate, there might be a historical inflection point. Whereas I predicted all last year that the election season would be the summer of '68 all over again, I have now revised that prediction to this summer. I dread it, but fear that may be what it takes. It always has taken that.

As someone descended proudly from working class people from the most remote mountains of Western North Carolina, when I was still teaching, I taught The Grapes of Wrath to my AP students like it was holy scripture; I even read the famous last speech by Tom in which he repeatedly assures his dear Ma, "I'll be there" at my mother's funeral. (Neither here nor there, but I would sometimes play them the three versions of "The Ghost of Tom Joad" (Guthrie, Springsteen and RATM as an exercise in analyzing tone in the vastly different interpretations)). That is really what that book is all about: the terrifying power of "just plain folk" when they band together in that realization. The broligarchy fears than more than anything else, and always has.

[Irish_Dem]

8. Good post. It should be an OP.

[Basso8vb]

6. More like a smashed up trombone.

[GoodRaisin]

7. The Krasnovites will go down with the ship.

[thought crime]

9. Maybe it's broken?

In 1991 the Soviet Union collapsed. Could the US “collapse”?

Did it already happen (e.g. on Jan 6) and we just haven’t noticed quite yet?

We're living in the America that David Bowie was afraid of. It's always been there, lurking.

[in2herbs]

10. I think the breaking point will be listening to the stories of those who were kidnapped and flown to

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the hell hole prison in El Salvador. That is the reason the F47 regime is saying they can't return Mr. Garcia -- because he will have a story to tell and they don't want it told.


edit Ecuador to El Salvador

[RoeVWade]

11. Though it seems unlikely, defection of some of these loyalists on the inside would be an excellent sign things are

cracking.

[rich7862]

12. Understand the trump turd operates on and for one thing Money to buy Power.

Take away his money there is no money to pay lawyers, judges, Supreme Court, his private army of maggots that do his dirty work.

[Danascot]

13. When the Magats said they wanted America to return to an earlier time

I didn't know they meant 1929.

[Emile]

14. First they came for the immigrants and I . .

[jalan48]

15. I think the next step will be a 9/11 type event to scare the public into submission.

Bad guys in the US will be identified , maybe like those who organize protests against Trump & Co. Show trials will be held and dissenters will be sent to hell holes in places like El Salvador. Meanwhile the billionaire class will buy up the country on the cheap and go golfing. We are now on the list of repressive authoritarian countries. Our politicians should have seen it coming decades ago.

[elocs]

16. Yes, millions, tens of millions of maga & those who voted for Trump will be hurt

by his actions. Which is why his intentions will be not to have any elections which would hurt him. Dictators don't worry about fair and free elections.
Also, I saw Trump being interviewed and was asked if he wanted Vance to be his successor and he answered simply, "no" because he doesn't intend to be succeeded since he doesn't intend to leave.