You know, sometimes I think about history and certain events and wonder why people did what they did. Like the Holocaust - why didn't the at-risk people get out while they still could? Now I'm getting a front row seat to watch that mentality. I don't really understand it because it's not part of my personal makeup, but watching people play out their nature has been fascinating and enlightening for me. Not to mention frustrating.
I'm picturing Chaim going, "Yo, Abie, it's getting dangerous here. We're bugging out, wanna come?" And Abie goes, "I could never do that. This is my home, and I can't leave my job and family." Chaim: "Bring your family with you." Abie, all noble like, goes: "Oh, I could never do that. We're going to stay here and fight for our home." Then Abie reports Chaim to the Gestapo in hopes of scoring a few brownie points, and ends up getting gassed anyway.
I honestly don't think it will come to that in the US - there are too many moving parts. But there are a lot of people who believe we're already there, and those are typically the exact same people who won't lift a finger to minimize their risk. "The world is ending!" "Yeah? What are you doing about it?" "Telling you!"
Fascinating.
The bolded answered your question.
Look at COVID. Our government managed to force every American - through threats, intimidation, and fear - to give up their freedoms. And for millions... their livelihoods. Here we are over a year later still in that same place - masking up, shut down, police still arresting people over it. Fear over getting sick caused us to destroy lives. We were given daily body counts to instill that fear. We were given so-called "advice" from Fauci and those fascists; advice that was all over the map. And Americans obeyed.
Government is organized to oppress the people. The people are not organized to reject an oppressive government. I kept hoping for a day where one person took their mask off, cop comes to arrest him/her, and everyone else around that person band together in unity, taking their masks off in unanimous rejection to the oppression. Yeah, I could have tried it. But, I knew no one, out of fear of being arrested and getting sick, would join in. In fact, I'm convinced most would have demanded my arrest.
COVID was a test. The government proved they can easily control us, and use law enforcement to enforce that control. We have a far-left government running this country. We have far left media controlling voices. These people have defined their opposition (the right) as the enemy of this country and convinced media platforms and law enforcement to use their authority and power to shut them down. COVID worked on a general level. Now, they can use the same fear tactics to convince the country how dangerous conservatives are and must be dealt with. It's starting with social media shutting down voices on their platforms. We have elected fascists running around, like Maxine Waters, urging "protesters" to assault their identified enemy.
So, as to "I honestly don't think it will come to that in the US"...??? It's here.