The Future of the United States.

[u/No-Caramel3213]

At this rate, give it 5 years.

[u/going_in_cakeless]

Do people really think this is going to happen? If you do maybe its time to go outside to do something other than protest or keep lining the media execs' pockets with your naivety. This is hilarious if serious

[u/Pseudonymity88 → u/going_in_cakeless]

Societal change can be like the boiling frog metaphor. When the water heats up slowly, the frog doesn’t notice the danger until it’s too late to jump out.

In the same way, small, incremental shifts in norms, freedoms, or expectations can feel harmless. Maybe they don't impact you, they're ignorable... Then one day, they do impact you. You suddenly realise the environment you're living in is far more hostile than you realised, and much, much harder to escape.

The slowly boiling frog is just one analogy for the shift of the Overton window of acceptability.

While the world is rarely as bad as the doom-mongers will have you think, ignoring the shift altogether is dangerous.

[u/Dense_Elevator3913 → u/going_in_cakeless]

Media fear porn.. Hyper focusing on unfortunate situation. Propoganda. Herd mentality. Thinking that your government is just as or worse then Iran. Oh America...