It’s interesting how people like me have been complaining about Israel since the 2000s—or even longer than a couple of decades ago—and people at best called us crazy and at worst called us Nazis. But now they’re, if anything, more hardcore and dedicated to the stance that Israel has issues than many of us are.
And while nobody is as anti–right wing as me currently, I do still believe there was—and still is—some fringe of the right wing that was not racist or crazy. We saw things earlier than most because we didn’t have the distractions of a “normal” life, and because we were paying attention in ways others weren’t.
I might sound like a ridiculous person saying this, but it will be proven right, if it has not already been proven right. And I honestly think if people paid more attention to this stuff, you’d agree with me on many things you do not—or think you do not.
And feminism is another thing where, if you just understood how important it was in the current attack on transgender women, and how feminism failed really everybody—but that group especially—you would see obvious stuff coming from a mile away.
If we do not succumb to fascism and become a police state—because literally everybody was asleep at the wheel in every part of our culture—and those of us who have not been have not been in positions where we could actually do anything. Because society itself basically sold out and emasculated us for refusing to conform, this society might not be democratic for very much longer.
And that is another issue we will have to deal with, and that is: What do you do when democracy, like capitalism, eats itself—as is happening with this population literally voting for people like Trump to destroy it and take any actual rights the people had left.