• mozz@mbin.grits.dev
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    5 months ago

    People aren’t as afraid as she wants them to be. Some of them are, and some are just amped up for violence because something is wrong with them, but for the real horror shows to begin next year if Trump wins, ordinary people (like millions of them) have to be frightened enough, maybe not to take part in anything highly irregular, but enough that it won’t bother them that they know it’s going on. Because after all, these are desperate times.

    On some level she knows this, she can feel that the tenor of the times just isn’t matching how she needs it to be, just as birds know when it is time to fly to a new place for the winter. I doubt she understands all the reasons and implications any more than the birds do.

    But she can feel that it’s wrong, and so she’s trying to just tell people: Be scared. Be more scared. I command it.

    She is not undangerous as she is, but she would be a lot more dangerous if she were more cunning.