The way Abbott keeps upping the game with each new action being a little bolder and fascist than the last is apparently their plan to normalize their shit. Same with Trump and his lies. For some reason if he can tell a larger whopper today, then the slightly smaller one he told yesterday doesn't seem so bad and is just accepted. Abbott said it best when he said, "It could have been worse." Just sums up the whole thing. We begin to accept the crap they say and do, because each day they prove that indeed 'it could be worse.' It's like with Hitler and his gradual taking of territories and countries in Europe. Everyone knows it could be worse, but do we rise up against him and bring it to a head now, or do we give him what he wants now and hope he's happy with it? We have been Chamberlains for too long now, we are going to need a Churchill for keeping our democracy.
At first, I thought it had to do with his need for attention, as it is in Trump's case. But there is a thing in people that needs to dominate over others however they can. It makes them feel superior and they find places like churches, KKK, Rotary clubs, whatever to share their ideals and actions. The internet just made finding and joining these kinds of groups easier, and took them nationwide, if not globally.
I don't know how to counter that, and maybe I am seeing it wrong, but deep in all this I can't help but suspect the hands and money of a very elite group of monied people are inventing these groups and stirring a certain side up with hate rhetoric. Whether that money is American or Russian or possibly both, it would be difficult to prove. They are doing exactly what they accuse of Soros. Every accusation is an admission, right?
I don't have the answers, sometimes I just write things out to try to see if it makes sense to anyone else, and maybe someone has some ideas on how to combat all this shit.